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August 5, 2010
Quantitative Healthcare Analyst
Location: Washington D.C. metropolitan area
MedAssurant, Inc., a leading medical informatics solutions provider, is seeking a Quantitative Healthcare Analyst who has a proven track record in creating and analyzing complex healthcare databases. The successful candidate will be responsible for the design and execution of clinical and epidemiological research, and assist other MedAssurant staff in customized clinical studies, comparative analysis, performance measurement, evaluation of disease management programs, and research associated with clinical trials. The ideal candidate will be Master’s level trained in a health analytics field including epidemiology, economics, statistics, biostatistics, or actuarial science, and have experience using health care data in large data set capacities.
Responsibilities include:
- Design, execute, and coordinate quantitative studies of outcomes including cost, clinical, utilization, and satisfaction outcomes;
- Assist in protocol development for quantitative studies;
- Assist with the preparation of documents and presentation materials describing analytic methods;
- Serve as expert resource on methodological issues related to the analysis of health data; and
- Work with large health-related databases (chart audits, surveys and administrative data).
To be successful in this position, the ideal candidate will have 3-5 years experience in healthcare data analysis, experience with multivariate regression techniques, and other standard statistical, biostatistical, epidemiologic, econometric, and/or actuarial analytic techniques, and a strong background in research design, methodologies and analytical/statistical procedures.
Candidates must also be experienced in healthcare utilization and/or outcomes research, data coding and medical terminology, SAS, and understand a wide range of statistical concepts and methodologies. In addition, candidates must posses excellent interpersonal and project management skills, work well in a multi-disciplinary environment, and practice a strong work ethic, autonomy, and dependability.
Company Profile:
MedAssurant, Inc. is a leading provider of superior healthcare quality, care management, and financial performance improvement solutions empowered by advanced data analysis, abstraction, and verification systems. Applying a unique combination of nationwide personnel and an advanced technology infrastructure, MedAssurant provides local and national health insurance plans, care delivery networks, employers, pharmaceutical companies, regulatory bodies, and government organizations with powerful, turnkey services addressing disease management, clinical outcomes, quality of care, cost improvement, revenue enhancement, risk adjustment, and healthcare data verification. Our corporate headquarters is in Bowie, Maryland. We have other primary locations in Annapolis, Maryland; Lansing, Michigan; New York, New York and Atlanta, Georgia. Additional field offices and employee clinical and data review and operations personnel are maintained throughout the country, supporting services for all 50 States, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico.
To apply, please visit our website: http://www.medassurant.com/careers.aspx
August 2010: Analyst , Statistician
Senior Level Faculty Visitor
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Call for Faculty Visitors, at the Senior Level, willing to do Research and Lecturing in Health Economics and related fields: from one term to two years period
Universitat Pompeu Fabra is a rather new (twenty years old) public universit http://www.upf.edu/, its Economics and Business Department is one of the best of Europe http://www.econ.upf.edu/en/, hosting the well-known Center for Health and Economics (CRES) in the Health Economics field http://www.upf.edu/cres/en. The Department has been very active in the international job market for economists during the last few years. Faculty includes lecturers from MIT, Harvard, Chicago, LSE, Penn, Northwestern, New York, York, Berkeley, Toulouse…In addition to junior post docs on tenure track, this year the Department also has some openings at the senior level, for visitors to spend a maximum of two years (down to a term) willing to research and lecture on health economics and related affairs. We offer a dynamic research environment, good research facilities and reasonable salaries for an undergraduate and postgraduate teaching load in English language. We ask candidates to send CVs including list of publications and works-in-progress to:
Jaume Puig-Junoy
Department of Economics and Business
Center for Research on Health and Economics (CRES)
Universitat
Pompeu Fabra
Ramon Trias Fargas, 25-27
08005 Barcelona
gabriel.ferragut@upf.edu
August 2010: Professorship/Lectureship
HTA and Market Access Manager
Location: Thames Valley, UK
Salary: circa £70,000 + superb benefits
Can you support this crucial function in a fast growing company?
Our client is a fast-growing and profitable biotech company with a number of product portfolios, including one of high value niche products, and a very strong pipeline. The business’s sustained and impressive growth has enabled it to expand into new therapy areas. Described as “lean and mean” the organisation doesn’t have surplus staff, but is ready to make this new appointment.
You will provide HE support to the team of 6 market access specialists within the UK and Ireland business and report to the Associate Director of Market Access, UK. With the business facing strenuous HTA challenges, your HE knowledge and experience will prove invaluable to the team and enable the strategic objectives of the business to be met. Responsible for HTA submissions, you will influence pipeline development and trial design to best deliver positive HTA outcomes.
You have substantial experience in HTA and health economics, with an activist approach to your work and a strong strategic focus. You will be used to working autonomously and are able to identify what is needed and get things done. A people person, you are used to meeting the needs of stake-holders and internal customers and can relate to commercial staff. Naturally your technical skills are as robust as your experience is relevant.
This is a challenge for a manager ready to take on an HTA lead role. Please contact Peter Fortune at Eames.Jones.Judge.Hawkings, 29 High Street, Welwyn, Hertfordshire AL6 9EE, UK. Telephone: +44 [0]1438 840984 or email your CV quoting reference 10452 to partners@ejjh.co.uk. Web site http://www.ejjh.co.uk also at http://www.pharmiweb.com
August 2010: Health Technology Analyst , Manager , Market Access