Consultant
Merative
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Helen Varker is a Senior Data Scientist Research & Analytics group at Merative with a BS in Computer Science from Boston University. She has over 40 years of experience in healthcare information management and analysis. Ms. Varker currently provides programming and analysis support for a variety of research projects utilizing the MarketScan® databases. She has extensive experience providing management, content leadership and hands-on analysis for a wide array of healthcare related data including health plan member and patient survey projects ranging from general health risk assessments to disease-specific survey protocols, a variety of electronic medical record data, clinical trial data, patient registry data, as well as extensive experience analyzing administrative claims data. Significant projects she worked on include the development of 10 disease-specific patient and clinical outcomes measurement protocols for Oxford Health Plan’s subsidiary Specialty Management Company, a patient pain management registry and community based behavioral health patient registry for leading pharmaceutical companies and an FDA monitored study of opioid overdose rates involving three independent research partners of which Merative was one. Before joining Merative, Ms. Varker worked for Private Healthcare Systems, a national managed care company based in Massachusetts, as director of the Analytic Programming group. She oversaw administrative data sources and the company’s participation in the NCQA Pilot HEDIS Project.
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