Trauma Clinical Data Specialist

Summary

Join Q-Centrix, a leading healthcare information solutions provider, as a Clinical Data Specialist and contribute to advancements in healthcare. You will deliver quality solutions to hospital partners by abstracting and managing clinical quality data, applying your expertise to improve patient outcomes and research. This role involves working with patient medical records, performing data collection and reporting, ensuring data quality, and supporting partners' accreditation. You will engage in educational opportunities, stay updated on regulatory requirements, and contribute to team best practices. This is a fully remote position with a flexible schedule and a comprehensive benefits package.

Requirements

• 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
• Holds high standards for accuracy and are attentive to detail
• Technically savvy and 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 authorized to work in the United States now or in the future without sponsorship
• Must be the proud recipient of an AIS 15 Coding Certification
• At least 6 months of experience abstracting in the (Trauma Registry at any Trauma Level)
• 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 f rom our deep Trauma 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 Trauma 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' ACS Accreditation with utilization of NTDB/TQIP quality tools, support timely abstraction, and knowledge of 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
• Contribute to our culture of perpetual learning and meaningful collaboration, supporting the development of your colleagues, including CDQS and SCDS team members

Preferred Qualifications

Experience abstracting at a Level 1 facility

Benefits

• 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