Trauma Clinical Data Specialist (Beginner)

About the Role

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

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver quality solutions to hospital partners across the country, approaching each hospital engagement as an opportunity to apply expertise with precision.
• Categorize, code, summarize, interpret, and mine registry/case information from 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 partners' ACS Accreditation with utilization of NTDB/TQIP quality tools, support timely abstraction, and knowledge of how standards support quality patient care.
• Stay up to date on mandated regulatory/publicly reported data requirements.
• Contribute to team best practices, data dictionaries, abstraction guidelines, and other business rule documents.
• Identify process improvement opportunities to streamline tasks and processes.
• Support the development of colleagues.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Experience working with multiple patient medical record systems (EMRs) and clinical databases.
• Exposure to patient medical record systems (EMRs) and clinical databases.
• Intermediate proficiency with MS Office (Microsoft Excel).

Qualifications

• Possess strong analytical and critical thinking skills.
• Holds high standards for accuracy and is attentive to detail.
• Technically savvy and interested in learning new systems and technology.
• Organized and adept at managing time across multiple accounts and shifting timelines and priorities.
• Deeply values information security and privacy, maintaining high responsibility in keeping PHI secure and confidential.
• 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).

Educational opportunities include on-the-job learning, accessible CEUs, and paid time for continuing education.

The target wage range for this role is $25.00 - $26.00 per hour.