Job Description:
At Boston Children’s Hospital, the quality of our care – and our inclusive hospital working environment – lies in the diversity of our people. With patients from local communities and 160 countries around the world, we’re committed to reflecting the spectrum of their cultures, while opening doors of opportunity for our team. Here, different talents pursue common goals. Voices are heard and ideas are shared. Join us, and discover how your unique contributions can change lives. Yours included. Position Summary: The Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) Program at Boston Children’s Hospital (BCH) is seeking a highly motivated individual to support clinical research, quality improvement (QI), and data-driven program development within a dynamic, multidisciplinary environment. This role builds upon our longstanding participation in national IBD QI collaboratives (ImproveCareNow) and expands to include advanced use of EPIC and healthcare data systems. ImproveCareNow is a national collaborative QI network, utilizing a registry designed to study, understand, and improve patient care of children with IBD, a collection of chronic diseases that cause inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract. This position will play a central role in extracting, analyzing, and translating clinical data into the improvement of patient care and outcomes. Responsibilities span many aspects of study design and network collaboration and may include coordinating the collection of data and informed consent, interacting with the Institutional Review Board (IRB), preparing internal presentations, contributing to discussions within BCH and the national QI network, and effectively gathering, entering, and analyzing accurate data from patient charts. The coordinator will utilize tools within the electronic medical record (EPIC) to develop and query an internal IBD registry to study and improve quality of care of IBD patients locally as well. The work for this project takes place in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with opportunities to interact and collaborate with many different types of providers and other staff involved in healthcare, both locally and nationally. The selected candidate must be highly motivated, well-organized, enthusiastic, and professional. The candidate must also be independent, efficient, and have exceptional interpersonal skills, as interaction with patients, families, medical staff, and other researchers is necessary. This is an ideal position for an early-career candidate interested in medicine, public health, data analytics, healthcare systems, informatics and/or quality improvement, with opportunities to develop expertise in EPIC tools and contribute to system-level improvements.
