At Virtua Health, we exist for one reason – to better serve you. That means being here for you in all the moments that matter, striving each day to connect you to the care you need. Whether that's wellness and prevention, experienced specialists, life-changing care, or something in-between – we are your partner in health devoted to building a healthier community. 
 
If you live or work in South Jersey, exceptional care is all around. Our medical and surgical experts are among the best in the country. We assembled more than 14,000 colleagues, including over 2,850 skilled and compassionate doctors, physician assistants, and nurse practitioners equipped with the latest technologies, treatments, and techniques to provide exceptional care close to home. A Magnet-recognized health system ranked by U.S. News and World Report, we've received multiple awards for quality, safety, and outstanding work environment.

In addition to five hospitals, seven emergency departments, seven urgent care centers, and more than 280 other locations, we're committed to the well-being of the community. That means bringing life-changing resources and health services directly into our communities through our Eat Well food access program, telehealth, home health, rehabilitation, mobile screenings, paramedic programs, and convenient online scheduling. We're also affiliated with Penn Medicine for cancer and neurosciences, and the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia for pediatrics.

Location:

Lippincott - 303 Lippincott Drive

Employment Type:

Employee

Employment Classification:

Regular

Time Type:

Full time

Work Shift:

1st Shift (United States of America)

Total Weekly Hours:

40

Additional Locations:

Job Information:

Job Summary:

The role will perform research and development of advanced analytics solutions in healthcare.  Interact with subject matter experts to uncover important insights and build on concepts in statistics, optimization, and machine learning to improve patient and provider experiences.  Identify strategic issues, forms hypothesis, design and conduct analyses, synthesize conclusions into recommendations and presentation materials and conducts follow-up studies.    

Position Responsibilities:

Use mathematics, statistics, predictive models, business analysis, and cloud technology to transform high volumes of complex data into advanced analytic solutions.

Understand and document business/clinical needs as well as recommend appropriate IS solutions to deliver the needed data. 

Serve as primary data liaison to the business/clinical areas to ensure overall expectations are met or exceeded for all data/reporting needs.  Facilitate effective customer engagement through regular applicable governance meetings, rounding, and communications regarding requirements, enhancements and priorities. 

Keep abreast of current healthcare trends by attending appropriate meetings and reviewing current literature.  Provides market intelligence on a regular basis to operations/product line managers and executives.

Research on how to collect or find raw data that can be transformed into meaningful information.

Position Qualifications Required:

Required Experience:

2+ years’ experience applying modern machine learning algorithms (clustering, classification, and regression), statistical methods, and optimization.

Strong skills in SQL, fluency in coding in R and/or Python.

Experience using major cloud platforms such as AWS and/or Azure.

Strong data visualization abilities in Tableau/Qlikview, ggplot etc.

Familiarity with EPIC is preferred.

Required Education:

Master’s Degree in data science, industrial and systems engineering, analytics, mathematics, business, or related field.

Training / Certification / Licensure:

Advanced level experience with SQL, NOSQL, Tableau, Azure, R and/or Python and other database tools for research and analysis.