PHDs and PHD Candidate Opportunities at Accretive Health (NYSE: AH) Chicago, IL

Accretive Health is looking for creatively brilliant professionals to leverage computational science and statistics in the pursuit of vastly better health outcomes.

You will develop and apply your knowledge of statistical analysis, machine learning techniques and operations research to extremely large multidimensional datasets.

We are looking for excellent researchers who have a burning desire to apply their capabilities in the pursuit of tangible results.

Responsibilities

·         Generate health insights through exploratory analysis of large multi-dimensional datasets (over 1 billion observations)

·         Apply machine learning and data mining techniques to health outcome and revenue cycle sample sets

·         Develop algorithms to discover implicit sequences, affinities and networks

·         Develop predictive health outcomes and revenue cycle models

·         Evaluate the effectiveness of competing algorithms

·         Work with engineering and data management teams to implement models in production-ready tools

Requirements

·         Expert in computational science fundamentals:  algorithms, data-structures, and their various tradeoffs

·         Comfortable pulling and integrating ideas from diverse academic disciplines (e.g. economics, statistics, sociology, operations research, and computer science)

·         Demonstrated ability to clearly articulate ideas and points of view

·         Ability to effectively translate algorithms and models into high-quality, high-performance software tools

·         Ph.D.  and PHD candidates in Computer Science, with a machine learning focus is optimal or  a Statistics and Operations Research background

·         Experience handling extremely large datasets

·         Experience with relational databases (SQL Server a plus)

·         Demonstrated ability to create economic impact

·         A degree from Stanford, Berkeley, CalTech, Carnegie Mellon, MIT, ITT and other top ranked schools are not mandatory but are preferred

About Accretive Health

Accretive Health is a leading provider of services to healthcare providers. Our business purpose is to help U.S. hospitals, physicians and other healthcare providers more efficiently manage their revenue cycle operations and population-based health management initiatives. Our distinctive operating model that includes people, processes and sophisticated integrated technology, which we refer to as our solutions, helps our customers realize sustainable improvements in their operating margins and improve the satisfaction of their patients, physicians and staff. Our customers typically are multi-hospital systems, including faith-based or community healthcare systems, academic medical centers and independent ambulatory clinics, and their affiliated physician practice groups. Our revenue cycle solution spans our customers' entire revenue cycle, unlike competing services that we believe address only a portion of the revenue cycle or focus solely on cost reductions. Our revenue cycle management customers have historically achieved significant improvements in cash collections measured against the contractual amount due for healthcare services, which we refer to as net revenue yield. Our population health management infrastructure spans the entire healthcare delivery continuum and enables providers to manage the health of their patient populations delivering higher quality care while reducing aggregate cost of care. For more information, please visit www.accretivehealth.com.