Coordinator, Clinical Data - 40 hours, days

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This position may have a signing bonus available a member of the Recruitment Team will confirm eligibility during the interview process.

At UMass Memorial Health, everyone is a caregiver - regardless of their title or responsibilities. Exceptional patient care, academic excellence and leading-edge research make UMass Memorial the premier health system of Central Massachusetts, and a place where we can help you build the career you deserve. We are more than 20,000 employees, working together as one health system in a relentless pursuit of healing for our patients, community and each other. And everyone, in their own unique way, plays an important part, every day.

I. Major Responsibilities:

1. Performs concurrent and retrospective medical record review to:
a. Meet requirements for abstraction put forth by government, accreditation, and insurer requirements.
b. Identify quality of care concerns and performance improvement opportunities as identified by specific UMMMC indicators.

2. Identifies and retrieves data (per specific project requirement) from electronic record or other data source based on abstraction needs.

3. Coordinates data collection for abstraction along with any outside vendors; completes appropriate forms and enters data into electronic data base(s) and may submit to external sources.
4. Interacts with healthcare stakeholders to share information regarding performance improvement initiatives.
5. As necessary, make outgoing post discharge phone calls to selected patients to obtain information from patients.
6. Facilitates and/or participates in a variety of task forces and quality improvement meetings. Reports on data for internal sources.
7. Works collaboratively with Medical Records Department, and Service Lines to identify areas for performance improvement around documentation, coding, quality, and clarification of externally and publically reported data.
8. Remains current regarding changes in hospital and governmental/external agency regulations as related to pertinent data collection.
9. Works collaboratively with Information Technology in the development of tools/reports for electronic abstraction of key fields in the EMR.
10. Reviews protocol for compliance with established databases, laws and regulations or organizational policies and procedures such as TJC, UHC and CMS.

All responsibilities are essential job functions.

II. Position Qualifications:

License/Certification/Education:
Required:
1. Bachelor's degree in Health Care Related Clinical field.

Experience/Skills:
Required:
1. Two years of experience working with medical records clinical abstraction and performance improvement in healthcare.
2. Excellent oral and written communication skills and teamwork skills.
3. Ability to utilize a variety of computerized software applications such as word processing, spreadsheets, and databases required.
4. Ability to work independently. Must have proven organization skills to meet established internal and external deadlines.
5. Must be able to exercise sound clinical judgment in the interpretation and documentation of medical and nursing care.
6. Ability to work with all levels of the organization and to actively participate on improvement teams.

Preferred:
1. EMR experience.
2. 2 years acute care clinical experience a significant plus.

Unless certification, licensure or registration is required, an equivalent combination of education and experience which provides proficiency in the areas of responsibility listed in this description may be substituted for the above requirements.

The position focuses on disease specific abstraction, analysis and improvement working closely with the Stroke Coordinator and other Quality, Safety and Regulatory Team members.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

We're striving to make respect a part of everything we do at UMass Memorial Health - for our patients, our community and each other. Our six Standards of Respect are: Acknowledge, Listen, Communicate, Be Responsive, Be a Team Player and Be Kind. If you share these Standards of Respect, we hope you will join our team and help us make respect our standard for everyone, every day.

As an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer, UMass Memorial Health recognizes the power of a diverse community and encourages applications from individuals with varied experiences, perspectives and backgrounds. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, gender identity and expression, protected veteran status or other status protected by law.

If you are unable to submit an application because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability, please contact us at talentacquisition@umassmemorial.org. We will make every effort to respond to your request for disability assistance as soon as possible.