CDS STS

About the role

As the healthcare industry shifts to value-based care, quality data abstraction has become critical in identifying positive patient outcomes. Clinical Data Specialists use Q-Centrix proprietary technology to contribute to healthcare’s most exciting advancements, delivering quality solutions to hospital partners through data abstraction and clinical quality data management. They apply clinical and data recognition expertise to advance patient outcomes and research.

Responsibilities

• Apply specialized knowledge to 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 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.
• Stay up to date on mandated regulatory/publicly reported data requirements as specified by federal, state, payer, and other agencies.
• Complete on-the-job training through the Q-Centrix Institute (QCI), a specialized learning path of up to 6 months, before being placed on a client services team.
• Perform other additional responsibilities as assigned.

Qualifications

• Direct experience in cardiac clinical care or cardiac surgical care.
• Exposure to multiple patient medical record systems (EMRs) and clinical databases.
• Enjoy working with data, fact-finding, and problem-solving.
• Proficient with MS Office (e.g., Microsoft Excel, Outlook, Teams), navigating search engines, and multitasking between applications.
• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills to approach problems systematically, synthesize data, and suggest recommendations.
• High standards for accuracy and attention to detail.
• Technical savvy and a strong desire to learn new systems and technology.
• Thrive working independently and take ownership of projects/patient records.
• Consistently and clearly communicate to collaborate effectively with hospital partners, peers, team leads, and others.
• Strong self-organizational and time management skills to concurrently manage multiple accounts, adjusting to shifting timelines and priorities.
• Adapt to changes in timelines, requirements, and project assignments.
• Maintain a high degree of responsibility in keeping PHI secure and confidential.