[Hiring] Clinical LAAO and STS Registry Reporting Specialist @Banner Health

Role Description

The Clinical Registry Reporting Specialist responsibilities include turning raw clinical documentation into reportable data that puts Banner Health’s outcomes on the national stage - then watching the same data flow back to the surgeons, cardiologists, and nurses who can act on it to improve patient care.

This position is responsible for abstracting clinical data from the Cerner electronic health record into national and state clinical registries, ensuring data accuracy, timeliness, and compliance with registry specifications. This role also performs quality assurance validation and inter-rater reliability (IRR) testing, maintains current knowledge of evolving registry and clinical guideline requirements, and translates registry benchmark data into actionable performance comparisons of Banner Health against national and peer-system outcomes.

Core Functions

• Data Abstraction: Abstracts clinical, procedural, and outcomes data from the Cerner patient chart into assigned clinical registries per each registry's data dictionary and specifications.
• Quality Assurance: Performs routine QA validation on abstracted records to ensure data integrity, completeness, and accuracy prior to registry submission.
• Inter-Rater Reliability (IRR): Participates in and supports IRR testing/audits to maintain abstraction consistency across the team and meet registry-required reliability thresholds.
• Registry Submission: Submits validated data within registry deadlines to ACC/NCDR, STS, AHA GWTG, ACS NSQIP, and other assigned registries.
• Guideline Currency: Maintains up-to-date knowledge of registry specification changes, clinical guideline updates, and abstraction rule changes; complete required registry certifications/training.
• Benchmarking & Reporting: Retrieves registry performance reports and translate results into clear benchmark comparisons of Banner Health performance against national and peer-system data for clinical and executive stakeholders.
• Cross-Functional Coverage: Works flexibly across multiple registries and service lines as assigned, supporting a consistent, system-wide abstraction and benchmarking function.
• Collaboration: Partners with physicians, service line leaders, quality teams, and registry coordinators to resolve data questions and support performance improvement initiatives.

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Nursing, Physician Assistant Studies, Medicine (MBBS, MD, DO), or equivalent working knowledge in other related clinical healthcare fields.
• Requires 2 to 4 years of clinical experience in an acute care hospital setting.
• Strong understanding of medical terminology, chart review, and clinical documentation.
• High attention to detail with demonstrated data accuracy and quality focus.
• Proficiency with EHR systems (Cerner Strongly Preferred).

Requirements

• Certifications in SCR (Surgical Clinical Reviewer), ODS (Oncology Data Specialist).
• Prior experience with clinical registry abstraction (ACC/NCDR, STS, NSQIP, AHA GWTG, Cancer/COC or state registries).
• Certified clinical data abstractor credential (e.g., CCDS, RHIA/RHIT, or registry-specific certification).
• Experience with performance benchmarking, dashboards, or quality reporting tools (e.g., Power BI).
• Additional related education and/or experience preferred.

Benefits

• Estimated Pay Range: $32.74 - $54.56 / hour.
• Banner Health is committed to pay equity and transparency.
• The posted compensation range is a reasonable estimate based on the circumstances at the time of posting.
• Actual pay determined at offer will be based on years of relevant work experience, education, certifications, skills, and geographic location.

EEO Statement

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