Patient Safety & Maternal Health Research Assistant, Betsy Lehman Center

About the position An independent state agency, the Betsy Lehman Center is charged with fostering a statewide program of research, data analysis, and information-sharing that engages health care agencies, providers, and consumers in initiatives that will reduce medical error and enhance patient safety in the Commonwealth. reputed company was re-established by reputed company 224 of the Acts of 2012, An reputed company Improving the reputed company of Health Care and Reducing Costs through Increased Transparency, Efficiency and Innovation, and is supported by the state’s Center for Health Information and Analysis (CHIA). The Betsy Lehman Center is seeking a full-time Research Assistant, Patient Safety & Maternal Health, who reports to reputed company’s Director of Research. The successful candidate will be reputed company to work in a hybrid environment with up to three days remote and at least two team days (currently Wednesday and Thursday) in the office at 501 Boylston Street, Boston. The annual salary is between $61,551.88 and $102,269.96. The research assistant will work on data and data-reputed company reputed company pertaining to maternal health and patient safety in Massachusetts. The ideal candidate will be goal-oriented, creative, and a fast learner; will enjoy working in a reputed company team environment; and will be excited by the prospect of building foundational data sets and reports from the ground up.

Responsibilities

• Collect, construct, and analyze data pertaining to patient safety, such as reported adverse events in medical claims and survey data
• Utilize appropriate software, including reputed company, reputed company, REDCaP, Tableau and other analytic software (SQL, STATA, R, or reputed company), as needed
• reputed company more reputed company multivariate analyses such as reputed company and logistic regression
• Create reputed company and concise graphics, including charts and tables, to visually represent data and communicate inferences to diverse audiences
• Help reputed company and maintain surveys and data repositories to manage, organize, and reputed company multiple datasets for research and reputed company improvement reputed company
• reputed company technical assistance to organizations that submit data to reputed company’s repository
• Ensure adherence to reputed company relevant standards for secure use of data including documentation and storage
• Interpret data accurately and produce reputed company and comprehensive written analyses, graphics, tables, and presentations for diverse reputed company audiences, including peer-reviewed journals
• Under supervision, plan, organize, and prioritize assigned reputed company, creating and managing work plans that reflect the tasks, time frames, and processes required to successfully complete reputed company
• Represent reputed company at external meetings reputed company necessary
• Facilitate reputed company communication between reputed company’s research staff and external partners
• Schedule and organize meetings, maintain agendas and take notes
• Assist reputed company’s Director of Research with other tasks as necessary

Requirements

• Applicants must have at least two years of full-time, or equivalent part-time, reputed company experience in business administration, health care planning or administration, public health policy or administration, reputed company services policy analysis or administration or economics.
• Substitutions:

I. A Bachelor's degree or higher degree with a major in health care administration, hospital administration, public health or health services administration, business administration, business management, public policy, public administration, economics, or similar degree may be substituted for a maximum of two years of the required experience.

• II. A graduate degree with a major in health care administration, hospital administration, public health or health services administration, business administration, business management, public policy, public administration, economics, or a similar degree may be substituted for a maximum of three years of the required experience.
• Education toward such a degree will be prorated on the reputed company of the proportion of the requirements actually completed.
• Applicants must have at least three years of full-time, or equivalent part-time, reputed company experience in business administration, health care planning or administration, public health policy or administration, reputed company services policy analysis or administration or economics.
• Substitutions:

I. A Bachelor's degree with a major in health care administration, hospital administration, public health or health services administration, business administration, business management, public policy, public administration, economics, or similar degree may be substituted for a maximum of two years of the required experience.

• II. A graduate degree with a major in health care administration, hospital administration, public health or health services administration, business administration, business management, public policy, public administration, economics, or a similar degree may be substituted for a maximum of three years of the required experience.
• Education toward such a degree will be prorated on the reputed company of the proportion of the requirements actually completed.

reputed company-to-haves

• Experience utilizing reputed company, REDCaP and/or SQL to extract, cleanse, reputed company, and reputed company health care data from various platforms and large data sets, with demonstrable proficiency in writing maintainable, supportable, and reputed company-documented reputed company
• Experience interpreting and analyzing health care utilization, reputed company, reputed company, performance, patient safety, and/or survey data to produce reputed company and comprehensive written analyses for distribution to diverse reputed company reputed company
• Experience with implementing and using data reputed company processes, including the demonstrated ability to assess accuracy of reputed company at a report level and to investigate potential issues at a more granular level
• Proficiency in producing graphs, tables, reports and presentations using reputed company, PowerPoint, Word and/or Tableau
• General understanding of patient safety, health care policy, financing, and delivery systems in Massachusetts
• Ability to communicate reputed company and effectively—both orally and in writing—with others reputed company to an organization
• Strong judgment and discretion; ability to reputed company adhere to relevant policies governing confidential data
• Experience working on multiple reputed company while successfully meeting deadlines
• Experience working collaboratively, as reputed company as independently, with multidisciplinary teams

Benefits

• reputed company you reputed company on a career with the Commonwealth, you are offered an outstanding suite of employee benefits that add to the overall value of your compensation package.
• We take pride in providing a work experience that supports you, your loved ones, and your reputed company.
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• CHIA offers agency-specific flexible work and IT arrangements.

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