Senior Oncology Data Specialist

Summary

Join Q-Centrix, the largest exclusive provider of clinical data management solutions to acute care hospitals, and advance safer, consistent, quality healthcare. As an Oncology Data Specialist, you will contribute to our market-leading oncology program, leveraging your expertise and insight2oncology® to help top hospitals unlock the value of clinical data. This 100% remote, flexible position offers both part-time and full-time opportunities with a consistent workload and competitive pay. Full-time employees enjoy comprehensive benefits. We are seeking individuals passionate about improving patient care through better data and committed to a culture of perpetual learning and collaboration.

Requirements

• Know how to evaluate concordance with cancer program accreditation and other applicable standards
• Have experience working with multiple patient medical record systems (EMRs) and clinical databases
• Possess strong analytical and critical thinking skills to approach problems in a systematic method, synthesizing data and suggesting recommendations
• Hold high standards for accuracy and are attentive to detail
• Call yourself technically savvy and are interested in learning new systems and technology
• Organized and adept at managing your time across multiple accounts and shifting timelines and priorities
• Deeply value information security and privacy, maintaining high responsibility in keeping PHI secure and confidential (psst… Q-Centrix is SOC2 + HITRUST certified, so we take our cybersecurity seriously!)
• Applicants for employment with Q-Centrix must be legally able to work in the United States now or in the future without sponsorship
• Must be the proud recipient of a ODS Certification
• Must have at least 2+ years experience abstracting with an ODS certification
• Direct data abstraction experience in the Cancer Registry
• Exposure to patient medical record systems (EMRs) and clinical databases
• Intermediate proficiency with MS Office (Microsoft Excel)

Responsibilities

• Become a part of our team during a milestone moment in our growth, benefiting from our deep cancer registry experience and employee-centric leadership
• Deliver quality solutions to hospital partners across the country, approaching each hospital engagement as an opportunity to apply your expertise with precision
• Bring your specialized knowledge and patient storytelling skills to our hospital partners through categorizing, coding, summarizing, interpreting, and mining registry/case information from nuanced, unstructured patient medical records
• Perform data collection (abstracting) and reporting on eligible cancer cases under current state mandates and national accrediting agencies
• Ensure quality submission of all data in specified registries or measure data repositories, maintaining a high accuracy threshold
• Support our partners' CoC Accreditation process with strong cancer registry operations, creation of policies and procedures, utilization of NCBD quality tools and knowledge of the how all the standards support quality patient care
• Engage in a variety of educational opportunities, including on-the-job learning guided by our in-house Quality & Education Team along with easily accessible CEUs and paid time for continuing education
• Stay up to date on mandated regulatory/publicly reported data requirements as specified by federal, state, payer, and other agencies
• Contribute to team best practices, data dictionaries, abstraction guidelines, and other business rule documents while also identifying process improvement opportunities to help streamline tasks and processes
• Participate in our culture of perpetual learning and meaningful collaboration, supporting the development of your colleagues, including team members who recently obtained their ODS Certification and Clinical Data Support Specialists

Preferred Qualifications

Experience working at or with a CoC Accredited facility

Benefits

• W2 employment (not contract!) with opportunities to create a flexible work schedule to tailor your around your needs in a 100% remote environment (no travel or onsite work required!)
• Competitive pay, including growth and advancement opportunities!
• Paid onboarding while awaiting facility access
• Comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, vision, 401(k) with match, generous PTO, parental leave, employer-paid short- and long-term disability, employee wellness resources, paid education time and CEUs, and more
• Opportunities to learn new skills through our in-house quality and education department
• Exposure to the best cancer registry software on the market
• Positive and collaborative relationships with customers, colleagues, and leadership
• Consistent and ongoing workload
• A fully remote work environment with flexible schedule and a generous Paid Time Off program with additional paid time for volunteering
• 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
• 401(k) retirement plan with a company match
• Paid professional development hours and other supportive resources