Data Integrity Specialist

Cooper University Hospital • Camden, NJ

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About The Position

The Data Integrity Specialist ensures the integrity and accuracy of medical records by resolving complex data integrity issues and correcting scanned documents in OnBase. The role processes patient amendment requests in collaboration with healthcare providers and follows up to ensure requests meet turnaround times. It also involves reviewing patient identity and demographic information using chart documentation, media, and external databases; communicating with patients, providers, leadership, and departments; and processing misregistrations, merges, unmerges, and related requests.

Requirements

• At least 3 years of experience in Health Information Management.
• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Extreme attention to detail while working in multiple computer applications.

Responsibilities

• Resolve complex data integrity issues, including merges, unmerges, and misregistrations.
• Process requests to unlink internal and external Care Everywhere records according to internal processes or external facility requests.
• Process patient amendment requests in collaboration with healthcare providers and follow up to ensure compliance with turnaround times.
• Liaise with Patient Access, ancillary departments, providers, and office staff regarding misregistrations and chart corrections.
• Communicate with patients, providers, and leadership regarding chart corrections and amendments.
• Use the Identity Events Report to review merges and merge statuses.
• Review demographic changes using chart documentation, media, and external databases; change a merge pair classification to NMR (Needs More Research) when applicable.
• Use Patient Contact Mover to transfer notes between patient records.
• Monitor and finalize requests in the in-basket for chart corrections, deceased patients, and other requests.
• Process requests to mark patients deceased.
• Correct scanned documents in OnBase, including deleting documents, correcting patient or encounter assignments, and correcting document types.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: High school or GED