Oncology Data Specialist Certified ODS-C

Health Catalyst

1d•Remote

About The Position

Join one of the nation’s leading and most impactful health care performance improvement companies. Over the years, Health Catalyst has achieved and documented clinical, operational, and financial improvements for many of the nation’s leading healthcare organizations. We are also increasingly serving international markets. Our mission is to be the catalyst for massive, measurable, data-informed healthcare improvement through: Data: integrate data in a flexible, open & scalable platform to power healthcare’s digital transformation Analytics: deliver analytic applications & services that generate insight on how to measurably improve Expertise: provide clinical, financial & operational experts who enable & accelerate improvement Engagement: attract, develop and retain world-class team members by being a best place to work Role: Oncology Data Specialist (Formerly CTR) Team: Data Abstraction - Tech Enabled Managed Services (TEMS) Travel: none anticipated Location: US Remote This position is currently not eligible for visa sponsorship What you'll own in this role: The following functions describe the essential duties of this role. Team members in this role may not perform all these duties, or may perform additional, related duties not listed here. Aligns with our current department goals and expectations. Aligns all work and resource management with Health Catalyst’s mission, cultural attributes, and operating principles including but not limited to providing quality data, promoting employee engagement, monitoring, and improving team member productivity, supporting individual, team member, and department growth, and embracing efficiency efforts. Assists in assuring the provision of accurate and reliable data acquisition and analysis to support oncology service lines and administrative decision making. Assists in assuring accurate reporting of all required information to the state’s Central Cancer Registry. Performs data collection, coding, and abstracting functions in accordance with established guidelines and licensure requirements. Maintains audit and quality assurance processes for case findings, abstracting, coding, follow-up, data processing procedures, and data analysis and reports. Manages follow-up surveys and updates information on cancer patients in the registry through contact with physicians, clinics, hospital records, patients, and families. Answers requests for registry data; extracts data from assigned company facility database and generates reports as needed. Oversees processes or directly submits data as required to the state law and accrediting agencies. Oversees compiling and preparing all required and requested reports, special studies and surveys required or assigned by the client, state, or accrediting agencies. Maintains a current knowledge of cancer treatment, research and Cancer Registry requirements and acts as a knowledge resource to team members. Provides guidance in interpreting the COC Cancer Program Standards and evaluation compliance. Manages and/or conducts hiring and training of new team members. Supports team members in their professional growth opportunities and continually focuses on improving team member engagement. Develops, coordinates, and enforces systems, policies, procedures. Creates productivity standards for their team, and takes a data driven approach to understanding their team’s average cost/case. Clearly communicates and monitors abstraction best practice to reduce variation in the average time/case. Coaches, counsels, and disciplines team members in accordance with established policies and procedures. Directs the workflow of the department staff by providing leadership assistance to achieve optimal operational, financial, and customer service outcomes. Completion of continuing education required to meet program standards/maintain Oncology Data Specialist (ODS) certification.

Requirements

Exceptional organizational skills with attention to detail and ability to prioritize
Must work well independently and remotely
Resiliency and ability to adapt to changing departmental workflows and technologies
Desire to be a continuous learner
Ability to understand and operationalize quality improvement philosophy, principles, and technology
Demonstrated ability in communication, creativity, flexibility, and problem-solving aligned with Health Catalyst operating principles and cultural attributes
Ability to establish partnerships with customers to accomplish the goals of the work
Knowledge of or ability to learn Microsoft Office products including but not limited to Outlook, Excel, Word, etc.
Knowledge of or ability to learn how to navigate various abstraction databases and data collection tools
Oncology Data Specialist (ODS), formerly Certified Tumor Registrars, (CTR) certification.
Requires five (5) or more years of related work experience in cancer registry and/or experience in an oncology data management position.
Clinical Data Abstraction experience.
Maintain compliance with training directives required by the organization pertaining to Information Security, Acceptable Use Policy and HIPAA Privacy and Security.
Adhere to and comply with the organizations Acceptable Use Policy.
Safeguard information system assets by identifying and reporting potential and actual security events to the organizations Security and Compliance Officers.

Responsibilities

Aligns with our current department goals and expectations.
Aligns all work and resource management with Health Catalyst’s mission, cultural attributes, and operating principles including but not limited to providing quality data, promoting employee engagement, monitoring, and improving team member productivity, supporting individual, team member, and department growth, and embracing efficiency efforts.
Assists in assuring the provision of accurate and reliable data acquisition and analysis to support oncology service lines and administrative decision making.
Assists in assuring accurate reporting of all required information to the state’s Central Cancer Registry.
Performs data collection, coding, and abstracting functions in accordance with established guidelines and licensure requirements.
Maintains audit and quality assurance processes for case findings, abstracting, coding, follow-up, data processing procedures, and data analysis and reports.
Manages follow-up surveys and updates information on cancer patients in the registry through contact with physicians, clinics, hospital records, patients, and families.
Answers requests for registry data; extracts data from assigned company facility database and generates reports as needed.
Oversees processes or directly submits data as required to the state law and accrediting agencies.
Oversees compiling and preparing all required and requested reports, special studies and surveys required or assigned by the client, state, or accrediting agencies.
Maintains a current knowledge of cancer treatment, research and Cancer Registry requirements and acts as a knowledge resource to team members.
Provides guidance in interpreting the COC Cancer Program Standards and evaluation compliance.
Manages and/or conducts hiring and training of new team members.
Supports team members in their professional growth opportunities and continually focuses on improving team member engagement.
Develops, coordinates, and enforces systems, policies, procedures.
Creates productivity standards for their team, and takes a data driven approach to understanding their team’s average cost/case.
Clearly communicates and monitors abstraction best practice to reduce variation in the average time/case.
Coaches, counsels, and disciplines team members in accordance with established policies and procedures.
Directs the workflow of the department staff by providing leadership assistance to achieve optimal operational, financial, and customer service outcomes.
Completion of continuing education required to meet program standards/maintain Oncology Data Specialist (ODS) certification.