CDS CathPCI

Overview

As the healthcare industry shifts to value-based care, quality data abstraction has become critical in identifying positive, patient outcomes. In fact, medical record abstraction is the preferred data collection method for clinical research, quality improvement, performance measurement, disease surveillance, and other secondary data uses. Our Clinical Data Specialists use MRO and Q-Centrix proprietary technology to contribute to healthcare’s most exciting advancements.

Clinical Data Specialists deliver quality solutions to hospital partners across the country through data abstraction and clinical quality data management. They approach each hospital engagement as an opportunity to apply clinical and data recognition expertise with precision to advance patient outcomes and research.

Responsibilities

• Apply specialized knowledge to hospital partners: categorize, code, summarize, interpret and calculate registry/case information from nuanced, patient medical records. 
• Ensure quality submission of all data in specified registries or measure data repositories, maintaining a high accuracy threshold.
• 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.
• Navigate 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.
• Contribute to team best practices, data dictionaries, abstraction guidelines, and other business rule documents; identifies process improvement opportunities to help streamline tasks and processes.
• Keeps up to date on mandated regulatory/publicly reported data requirements as specified by federal, state, payer and other agencies.
• Any or other additional responsibilities as assigned.
• Before officially being placed on one of our client services teams, you will join a cohort of exceptional peers in our newly created, world class, Q-Centrix Institute (QCI). Your time in QCI will contain a specialized learning path of up to 6 months of on-the-job training. Once you graduate from QCI, you will be ready to be a high performing team member at Q-Centrix.

Qualifications

• Have direct experience in the Cath lab or other direct cardio clinical care.
• Have exposure to multiple patient medical record systems (EMRs) and clinical databases
• Enjoy working with data, fact finding and problem solving
• Are proficient with MS Office (i.e. Microsoft Excel, Outlook, Teams), navigating search engines and multitasking between applications
• Have strong analytical and critical thinking skills to approach problems in a systematic method using the ability to synthesize data and suggest recommendations
• Demonstrate high standards for accuracy and attention to detail
• Demonstrate technical savvy and strong desire to learn new systems and technology
• Thrive working independently and take ownership of projects/patient records
• Consistently and clearly communicate to effectively collaborate with hospital partners, peers, team leads and others
• Demonstrate strong self-organizational and time management skills to concurrently manage multiple accounts, adjusting as needed to shifting timelines and priorities
• Adapt to changes in timelines, requirements, and project assignments

Maintain a high degree of responsibility in keeping PHI secure and confidential