Chest Pain MI Data Abstractor
Job Summary
The Senior Clinical Data Specialist is responsible for categorizing, coding, and interpreting patient medical records for hospital registries. This role ensures high-quality data submission while maintaining strict accuracy thresholds and meeting tight deadlines. You will navigate various EMR systems and contribute to team best practices to support safe and consistent healthcare.
Responsibilities
- Categorize and code patient medical records
- Ensure high-accuracy data registry submission
- Navigate EMR and registry entry tools
- Contribute to process improvements and data guidelines
Required Skills
- 6 months Chest Pain/MI registry experience
- Proficiency in MS Excel and EMR systems
- Strong analytical and critical thinking
- Data accuracy and detail-oriented
- Ability to manage concurrent tasks
Job Details
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Apply specialized, clinical knowledge of 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; use tact and judgment to manage expectations, flag obstacles, and propose solutions in a timely manner.
- 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.
- Contribute to team best practices, data dictionaries, abstraction guidelines, and other business rule documents; identify 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.
Required Skills/Abilities:
- Exposure to multiple patient medical record systems (EMRs) and clinical databases.
- Intermediate proficiency with MS Office (Microsoft Excel).
- Strong analytical and critical thinking skills to approach problems in a systematic method.
- Demonstrates high standards for accuracy and attention to detail.
- Demonstrates technical savvy and strong desire to learn new systems and technology.
- Thrives working independently and takes ownership of projects/patient records.
- Consistently and clearly communicates, adjusting style and tone as needed to effectively collaborate with hospital partners, peers, team leads and others.
- Demonstrates strong self-organizational and time management skills to concurrently manage multiple accounts.
- Ability to adapt to changes in timelines, requirements, and project assignments.
- Maintains a high degree of responsibility in keeping PHI secure and confidential.
Education and Experience:
- Must have at least 6 months Chest Pain/MI (NCDR/ACC) registry abstraction experience.
- Exposure to patient medical record systems (EMRs) and clinical databases.