Principal Data Scientist - Chicago, IL, United States - Veradigm

Description

Welcome to Veradigm Our Mission is to be the most trusted provider of innovative solutions that empower all stakeholders across the healthcare continuum to deliver world-class outcomes.

Our Vision is a Connected Community of Health that spans continents and borders.

With the largest community of clients in healthcare, Veradigm is able to deliver an integrated platform of clinical, financial, connectivity and information solutions to facilitate enhanced collaboration and exchange of critical patient information.

Veradigm Payer Veradigm understands that managed care organizations, pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), insurance companies, health plans, and other payers need to balance controlling costs with the goal of providing the highest quality of care and optimizing health outcomes for their members.

Solutions from Veradigm Payers:

Deliver insights to drive quality outcomes cost-effectivelyImprove efficiency for themselves, their providers, and their members through high-speed clinical data exchangeImpact point-of-care decision making positively by integrating payer guidance and prior authorization management directly in each healthcare provider's existing workflowPosition Description The Principal Data Scientist will lead the cultivation and expansion of an analytic culture of product development and evaluation that is best-in-class in Veradigm Payer markets.

This spans the lead in designing and building explanatory, predictive, and evaluative models of health care behavior, utilization, and outcomes for the Veradigm Payer suite of solutions.

This person will partner with Chief Data Scientist, executive team, and product subject-matter-experts (SMEs) in developing business and analytic requirements that reflect methodologically sound and appropriate research designs for hypothesis testing, sampling, handling of data anomalies (e.g., outliers, missing data), mining and model building that embody current best practices and will often be suitable for publication to enhance Veradigm Payer's reputation and brand.

The PDS will oversee the migration to Azure-based environment to mine, analyze, and model at massive scale and leverage this new environment to improve our analytics' scope, sensitivity, and performance.

The successful candidate will demonstrate facility with complex, messy health data, knowledge of the health care sectors in which Veradigm Payer operates, mastery of the research design and appropriate statistical techniques including, but not limited to, machine learning/neural networks, classic multivariate statistics used in health and life sciences, categorical data analysis.

What sets apart this role from other senior analytic roles, however, is the need to comfortably and accurately relate the business and its product requirements with the proper analytic approaches and specifics to support them.

This person must be as lucid with the business needs as with the analytics to support them, and be able to lead and mentor others to institutionalize these capabilities.

Position Responsibilities Leads and influences teams whose members are seldom direct-reports.
Leads, and as needed, directly develops business cases and requirements for advanced analytics supporting new and enhanced products.
Leads discovery process with stakeholders to identify analytic needs, important variables that might affect the desired outcomesLeads or determines the methods needed to meet the business requirements, along with their execution, including (as appropriate given business requirements)

Research or evaluative designSampling design and data management including imputation and use of indirect or proxy measuresAnalysis design including model contrasting, diagnostics, validation/robustness, goodness of fit, train v test, so onOversee progress to ensure adherence to the designs, resolve issues identified, advise on evaluation of outliers and missing data, results, diagnostics, and interpretation of findings and limitations.

Drive strategy for incorporating analytic result into normal product processing, e.g., creating scoring algorithms derived from models built, especially at data endpoints (point of care, integration with iOT devices/apps, etc.).

Ensure proper controls are in place to monitor performance of in-line analytics from both analytic quality and machine performance.

Ensure routine collection of performance data for both managerial controls and demonstrating efficacy of the analytics with their intended use.

Ensure analytics comply with regulatory and security requirements and with any client data-use restrictionsProvides on-going tracking and monitoring of performance decision systems and statistical modelsApprove the design and deployment of enhancement and fixes to the models as neededDevelops and/or uses algorithms and statistical predictive models and determines analytical approaches and modeling techniques to evaluate scenarios and potential future outcomesPerforms analyses of structured and unstructured data to solve multiple and/or complex business problems utilizing advanced statistical techniques and mathematical analyses and broad knowledge of the organization and/or industryCollaborates with business partners to understand their problems and goals, develop predictive modeling, statistical analysis, data reports and performance metricsDevelops and participates in presentations and consultations to existing and prospective constituents on analytics results and solutionsInteracts with internal and external peers and managers to exchange complex information related to areas of specializationUse strong knowledge in algorithms and predictive models to investigate problems, detect patterns and recommend solutionsUse strong programming skills to explore, examine and interpret large volumes of data in various formsMinimum Essential Knowledge / Skills:

Extensive experience in healthcare industryExperience with MA, ACA and/or Medicaid Risk Scoring methodology, including familiarity with condition categories (HCC)Solid knowledge of and experience with statistical techniques including parametric and non-parametric techniques, categorical data analysis, "AI" including neural networks, and other machine learning and predictive modeling techniques.

Logistic regression, survival and Bayesian analytics strongly preferred.

Strong proficiency in statistical analysis, quantitative analysis, and predictive analyticsExperience interacting with large amounts of healthcare dataExperience working with clinical classification such as diagnoses (ICD), procedures (HCPCS, CPT) and claims processingAdvanced knowledge of statistical package like SAS, SPSS, or STATAStrong competency with data management language (e.g., SQL, Databricks, Snowflake)Proven technical, analytical and problem solvingStrong written and verbal communicationProfessional and interpersonal skillsSelf-initiative and leadershipAbility to work within a team environmentAbility to interface with both external and internal personnel at all levels.

Required Education / Experience:
Bachelor's degree in Actuarial Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or in a related field10+ years of relevant Data Scientist experience5 + years demonstrated achievement with and mastery of quantitative and qualitative research and analytics experienceSolid experience supporting the development of scalable analytic and reporting s

Desired Skills:

Strong skills and experience with Big Data, Cloud-based computing, neural networksExperience using machine learning algorithmsExperience programming using R or PythonExperience in SAS or SQL #LI-Remote Enhancing Lives and Building Careers Veradigm believes in empowering our associates with the tools and flexibility to bring the best version of themselves to work and to further their professional development.

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