Data Specialist

Children's Healthcare of Atlanta • Brookhaven, GA

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About The Position

The Data Specialist assesses, organizes, and synthesizes clinical data collected for specific purposes and for individuals who need the information. The role ensures data produces valid, meaningful, and reliable results and proactively supports safe patient care and services and a safe environment at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta.

The position collects and maintains clinical data, primarily through medical-record review and discussions with physicians, nurses, families, and other personnel involved in patient care and prognostic outcomes. It maintains records of patient stays, outcomes, and disease processes; coordinates clinical-data acquisition and accurate entry into registry systems; and retrieves, validates, analyzes, and summarizes data for authorized audiences, research, and internal or external projects. The specialist supports data integrity, quality improvement, database maintenance, and compliance with database definitions and confidentiality requirements.

This is a PRN role with a day shift designation and variable workdays. The listed shift start and end times are 10:00 AM and 2:00 AM.

Requirements

• Two years of experience in a clinical specialty area, with knowledge of terminology and flow sheets.
• Experience related to research, with knowledge of research principles, methodologies, and study design.
• Graduation from an accredited school of nursing.
• Licensure as a Registered Nurse in Georgia, either single-state or multistate through the Enhanced Nurse Licensure Compact, as required by the service line.
• Ability to exercise independent judgment in preparing medical summaries and strong analytical capabilities.
• Knowledge of information systems, Microsoft Excel and Access, and database development.
• Good interpersonal, communication, and conflict-resolution skills.
• Problem-solving ability.
• Flexibility and adaptability to change.
• Must pass the Basic Windows Skill Assessment with a rating of 80% or higher within 30 days of employment.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with time and attendance systems, especially API.

Responsibilities

• Collect and maintain clinical data through medical-record review and discussions with physicians, nurses, families, and other personnel responsible for patient care and prognostic outcomes.
• Maintain extensive records regarding patient stays, outcomes, and disease processes.
• Use interactive skills with hospital staff and departments to request and collect data as required.
• Collect data for physician review concerning issues related to physician quality assurance.
• Retrieve and tabulate monthly patient-activity data, including admissions, discharges, patient days, occupancy, traumas, deaths, and transports.
• Maintain strict confidentiality of patient data, quality-assurance indicators, and collected results in accordance with HIPAA requirements.
• Participate in reviews of outcome trends, analysis, and improvement opportunities.
• Update training and maintain certification requirements as applicable.
• Perform department-specific duties related to database maintenance and data collection.
• Enter inpatient clinical data accurately and promptly.
• Coordinate and monitor clinical-data acquisition and data entry for process efficiency and accuracy in registry systems, and retrieve aggregate data.
• Follow database data definitions and stay aware of nationally recommended changes.
• Participate in annual reviews of data fields for relevance to current treatment methods and process-improvement indicators.
• Assist with processes that ensure data validation and integrity and capture the full appropriate patient population.
• Maintain competency and compliance with database requirements, including inter-reliability audits as required.
• Provide statistical support and analysis for projects.
• Export, validate, analyze, and summarize data for parties with a need to know.
• Facilitate provision of data needed for research.
• Provide data analysis and summaries for internal and external projects, institutional ad hoc reports, and requests for proposals.
• Identify and communicate report limitations.
• Design and develop data-collection tools and readable reports suited to the target audience.
• Attend offsite related educational seminars and conferences as required.
• Support and participate in continuous assessment and improvement of quality data entry and analysis.
• Meet regularly with physicians responsible for database oversight.

What This Job Offers

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