Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. MRO provides clinical data abstraction and clinical quality data management solutions to hospital partners across the United States. The Trauma Clinical Data Specialist abstracts, codes, interprets, and reports trauma registry data from medical records, ensuring accurate submissions and supporting accreditation and quality improvement initiatives. The role also contributes to data standards, process improvements, regulatory compliance, and team development.
Responsibilities
- Become a part of our team during a milestone moment in our growth, benefiting from 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
Skills
- 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!)
- 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)
- Applicants for employment with Q-Centrix must be legally authorized to work in the United States now or in the future without sponsorship
Benefits
- Inclusive culture
- Flexible work environment
- Learning and development opportunities
- Performance-based wage rate increases annually
- A fully remote work environment with flexible schedule
- A generous Paid Time Off program with additional paid time for volunteering
- Medical, vision, and dental coverage for employees and their eligible dependents
- Health savings accounts for employees and their eligible dependents
- Company-paid short- and long-term disability
- Employee assistance program
- Paid parental leave
- Life insurance
- Accident insurance
- 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
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