Role Description
Under the direction of the Manager or Senior Manager, the Senior Clinical Data Specialist plays a vital role in delivering quality solutions to hospital partners across the country, approaching each hospital engagement as an opportunity to apply your expertise with precision. This is a unique opportunity to become a part of our team during a milestone moment in our growth, benefiting from our deep cancer registry experience and employee-centric leadership.
Roles and Responsibilities:
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Apply specialized, clinical knowledge to hospital partners: categorize, code, summarize, interpret and calculate registry/case information from nuanced, patient medical records.
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Ensure quality submission of all data in specified registries or measure data repositories, maintaining a high accuracy threshold.
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Prioritize, organize, and meet tight deadlines for multiple concurrent tasks and team requests; uses tact and judgement to manage expectations, flag obstacles and propose solutions in a timely manner.
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Navigate new technical systems: electronic medical records (EMR) and registry/case entry tools; use team resources to troubleshoot technical issues with systems and applications with a focus on solutions.
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Contribute to team best practices, data dictionaries, abstraction guidelines, and other business rule documents; identifies process improvement opportunities to help streamline tasks and processes.
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Keeps up to date on mandated regulatory/publicly reported data requirements as specified by federal, state, payer and other agencies.
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Any or other additional responsibilities as assigned.
Qualifications
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Strong analytical and critical thinking skills to approach problems in a systematic method using the ability to synthesize data and suggest recommendations.
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Demonstrates high standards for accuracy and attention to detail.
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Demonstrates technical savvy and strong desire to learn new systems and technology.
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Intermediate proficiency with MS Office (Microsoft Excel).
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Thrives working independently and takes ownership of projects/patient records.
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Consistently and clearly communicates, adjusting style and tone as needed to effectively collaborate with hospital partners, peers, team leads and others.
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Demonstrates strong self-organizational and time management skills to concurrently manage multiple accounts, adjusting as needed to shifting timelines and priorities.
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Adapts to changes in hospital partner timelines, requirements, and project assignments.
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Maintains a high degree of responsibility in keeping PHI secure and confidential.
Requirements
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Direct abstraction experience within the STS General Thoracic (GTS) or Adult Cardiac (ACS) registry within the last 12 months.
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Exposure to multiple patient medical record systems (EMRs) and clinical databases.
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Direct clinical experience (preferred).
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RN or LPN Credential or substantial clinical experience (preferred).
Benefits
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A fully remote work environment with flexible schedule and a generous Paid Time Off program with additional paid time for volunteering.
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Robust benefits package including medical, vision, dental, health savings accounts, company paid short- and long-term disability, employee assistance program, paid parental leave, life insurance, accident insurance, and other voluntary benefit programs for employees and their eligible dependents.
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401(k) retirement plan with a company match.
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Paid professional development hours and other supportive resources.