The Innova Group is searching for a qualified Healthcare Associate/Analyst to join our multi-disciplinary planning team and support all aspects of project research, analysis, and deliverable development. The successful candidate will analyze, assist and develop innovative planning solutions for strategic, operational and/or facility planning issues for a variety service lines with healthcare system clients. The most successful candidate will have and demonstrate skills and experience in a blend of data science, analytics, healthcare focus data management and planning.

The Innova Group is a Healthcare Planning Consultancy with offices in Austin, Atlanta, Boston, Dallas, Denver, Minneapolis, Tucson and Washington DC

Job Description

·        Use multiple techniques and software (SQL, Excel, Tableau, ARCGIS, etc.) to:

·        Acquire, normalize and analyze multi-sector medical data (patient/facility/physician) utilized in modeling healthcare delivery and developing operational alternatives for healthcare systems

·        Forecast future healthcare utilization through trend analysis and extrapolation

·        Present and display data, analysis and findings to help clients make decisions

·        Research and document best practices, emerging trends

·        Assist in presentation and report productions

·        Develop financial analyses

·        Demonstrate capabilities utilizing healthcare strategy, planning metrics and emerging trends to define operational processes and resource requirements ($$, space and staff) in healthcare planning documents for clinical staff, administrators and architects

·        Contribute to firm: assist with proposals and marketing, develop tools and firm knowledgebase

Required Qualifications

·        Entry level knowledge of healthcare services, delivery models, data sets, related codes, and facility, finance and/or operation related planning metrics

·        Ability to create/communicate relevant solutions to complex problems through thoughtful and often complex analyses

·        Demonstrated team player

·        Bachelors and/or Masters Degree in one of the following programs: Healthcare, Business, Science, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Architecture, Industrial Engineering, GIS or other data/analysis intensive major

·        2-6 years of experience

Desired Technical Skills

·        MS Office: Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel (intermediate proficiency required – Pivot tables, complex “if” statements, conditional formatting)

·        SQL: intermediate proficiency (import data, indices, query/table development, CTE creation, etc.).

·        Database Application development skills

·        GIS Experience

·        Graphics capability (Graphic Design/Media/Other Dimensions)

·        3D Modeling Software

·        Business Intelligence Tools

·        Experience related to Innova core sectors (Healthcare planning/space programming/implementation)