Job Title: Clinical Data Analyst (Honest Broker)
Duration: 6 Month Contract to Hire
Location: Piscataway, NJ -Hybrid Model (2 days onsite/3 days WFH)
Must-haves
- 5+ years of experience within a data analyst position
- SQL querying experience
- Data management or healthcare informatics environment working experience
- EPIC Clarity database knowledge
- Data de-identification experience for HIPPA compliance needs
- Python, R, or other related scripting languages knowledge
- Bachelors degree in IT or related field
Plusses:
- Healthcare research environment experience
- Masters Degree in related fields
- EPIC Clarity certification
Day to Day:
As an Honest Broker for the Clinical Research Data Warehouse (CRDW), your primary responsibility is to safeguard the security and privacy of sensitive data while facilitating authorized access for research purposes. This position is responsible for de-identifying data, maintaining the privacy and confidentiality of protected health information (PHI), and serving as an intermediary between researchers and clinical data sources, ensuring that researchers receive de-identified information and samples necessary for their studies.
Among the key duties of this position are the following:
- Collaborate with researchers, institutional review boards (IRBs), and data custodians to evaluate data access requests.
- Facilitate the acquisition of necessary permissions and approvals for data access, including ensuring that researchers have completed EPIC training where necessary.
- Utilize appropriate de-identification techniques to ensure that personal or sensitive information remains confidential.
- Remove or transform any identifying elements from data sets to prevent re-identification. De-identify identifiable data, biospecimens, and PHI in accordance with applicable privacy regulations and institutional policies.
- Act as a trusted intermediary to release de-identified data subsets to authorized researchers.
- Maintain a record of data release, ensuring compliance with data use agreements and ethical guidelines.
- Provide re-identification codes as necessary for information collation or subsequent inquiries while retaining the information linking these codes to the patient’s identity.
- Ensure that direct contact with patients is avoided in compliance with regulations.
- Implement and uphold data security and privacy standards to safeguard sensitive information.
- Regularly review and update data handling protocols to align with the latest regulations and best practices, including EPIC related compliance.
Exact compensation may vary based on several factors, including skills, experience, and education.
Benefit packages for this role will start on the 31st day of employment and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as HSA, FSA, and DCFSA account options, and 401k retirement account access with employer matching. Employees in this role are also entitled to paid sick leave and/or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.
Compensation: $60hr to $70hr
