Clinical Data Abstractor

Position Summary:

A Clinical Data Abstractor performs clinical auditing and data abstraction of patient records in support of the organizations clinical quality improvement and patient safety initiatives associated with various quality improvement data reporting systems.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities as Assigned:

• Participates in relevant training at assigned sites and through training, develops expertise.

• Reviews medical records to abstract relevant data for eligible patients utilizing both electronic upload and manual data abstraction of records. Assures electronic data are verified for accuracy and assures data entry of manually abstracted data into collaborative / registry.

• Collaborates with assigned sites to review non-concordant cases and identifies and presents findings to other key stakeholders.

• Utilizes clinical expertise to examine the electronic medical records of cases to identify patients eligible for inclusion in the collaborative / registry.

• Responsible for the accurate and timely entry of data into program database portals and meets the caseload accrual requirement protocol.

• Actively participates in audits of data entered the collaborative / registry

Qualifications:

Required:

• Associate’s degree in nursing, healthcare administration, informatics, or related field with two years of experience in clinical data analysis or a similar role

OR

• Bachelor’s degree in nursing, healthcare administration, informatics, or related field

Preferred:

• Experience in a clinical setting.

• Clinical chart review and abstraction experience.

• Database data entry and/or management experience.

Additional Information

• Schedule: Full-time
• Requisition ID: 26010290
• Daily Work Times: 8am - 4:30pm
• Hours Per Pay Period: 80
• On Call: No
• Weekends: No

About Us

McLaren Health Care, headquartered in Grand Blanc, Michigan, is a $7.3 billion, fully integrated health care delivery system committed to quality, evidence-based patient care and cost efficiency. The McLaren system includes 12 hospitals in Michigan, ambulatory surgery centers, imaging centers, a 640-member employed primary and specialty care physician network, commercial and Medicaid HMOs covering more than 732,838 lives in Michigan and Indiana, home health, infusion and hospice providers, pharmacy services, a clinical laboratory network and a wholly owned medical malpractice insurance company. McLaren operates Michigan’s largest network of cancer centers and providers, anchored by the Karmanos Cancer Institute, a National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer centers. McLaren has 20,000 full-, part-time and contracted employees and more than 113,000 network providers throughout Michigan, Indiana and Ohio.