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Hours Full-time, Part-time
Location Boston, MA
Boston, Massachusetts

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Innovation.  Adaptability. A passion for analytics and problem solving.  If those traits brought you here, this opportunity can take you much further.  Humedica, now part of Optum, is serving the health care marketplace with the information tools and analytics solutions that will fuel change going forward.  We are well past big data.  In fact, we are using great data to uncover new solutions and novel marketplace opportunities. If you thrive on making an impact in an evolving market, we should be talking. Join the expanding family of UnitedHealth Group companies and help shape history. You will help us improve the lives of others while doing your life's best work.(sm)

 

Humedica is the foremost clinical intelligence company, providing private cloud-based business solutions to the health care industry. The environment is aggressive, fast paced and innovative. We are looking for smart, innovative individuals who will take ownership of their responsibilities, work collaboratively and always look for ways to add to the personal and professional growth of the company. Humedica offers the opportunity for rapid advancement in responsibilities.

 

As a Healthcare Implementation Business Analyst, you will possess strong deductive reasoning and analytic skills, as well as experience working with data, to manage client implementations.  The Humedica data management team doesn't build software, we build data that is used by software, so the BA we're looking for is not your typical Systems Business Analyst.  The role involves some project management, some requirements gathering, and a whole lot of data analysis. This is an ideal role for an analyst with experience working with clinical data from a variety of different sources.


In this role, you will work with customers, developers, clinical informatics specialists and DBAs to build databases from a number of different source systems.  You will have the chance to grow your career quickly and will gain invaluable experience in the rapidly growing healthcare analytics field.

 

Primary Responsibilities: 


  • Work with all constituents throughout the implementation process from initial engagement to delivery of application solutions
  • Communicate with clients and developers to define and validate data extraction specifications
  • Define cross-walks to integrate data from different types including clinical, registration and billing.  As well as different sources including EMR's, HL7's, 837's, and Practice Management Systems
  • Assist with the extraction, transformation and load specifications and business logic into application database
  • Communicate with clinical informatics specialists, product managers and developers to ensure translation of requirements to IT solutions
  • Load data extracted from client source systems into an Oracle staging environment using SQL loader
  • Detect load errors using reports and scripted QA checks, as well as resolve load issues
  • Conduct analysis to ensure quality of data at various stages of its evolution.
  • Work with all constituents in the day-to-day operational process of on-going data processing 

Requirements

Required Qualifications:


  • 1+ years of experience writing SQL queries
  • 1+ years of experience working with large databases and querying large data sets
  • 1+ years of experience analyzing user requests, defining requirements and reporting conclusions
  • Bachelor's degree required
  • Ability to travel up to 20% within the US as needed

Preferred Qualifications:


  • Working knowledge of hospital and physician practice operations
  • Working knowledge of specific electronic medical records or claims systems
  • Working knowledge of health information systems
  • Working knowledge of standard clinical terminologies and coding systems
  • Experience with HL7 standards
  • Experience with 837 standards
  • Experience working in an oracle environment
  • Experience working in an unix environment
  • Experience executing stored procedures and/or PERL scripts
  • Expereince working with MS Project
  • Experience working with JIRA or other issue tracking software
Careers with Optum. Here's the idea. We built an entire organization around one giant objective; make health care work better for everyone. So when it comes to how we use the world?s large accumulation of health-related information, or guide health and lifestyle choices or manage pharmacy benefits for millions, our first goal is to leap beyond the status quo and uncover new ways to serve. Optum, part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, brings together some of the greatest minds and most advanced ideas on where health care has to go in order to reach its fullest potential. For you, that means working on high performance teams against sophisticated challenges that matter. Optum, incredible ideas in one incredible company and a singular opportunity to do your life's best work.(sm)

 


Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.


 


UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.


 


Job Keywords: Healthcare Implementation Business Analyst, IT, Information Technology, Optum, Healthcare, Boston, MA, Massachusetts