About Us
McLaren Health Care is a fully integrated health network committed to quality, evidence-based patient care with locations in Michigan and Indiana. The McLaren system includes 13 hospitals in Michigan, ambulatory surgery centers, imaging centers, a primary and specialty care physician network, commercial and Medicaid HMOs, 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, one of only 53 National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer centers in the U.S.
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.
- 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.
- Actively participates in audits of data entered the collaborative / registry.
- Works with clinical, site level quality and other appropriate staff to assist with timely and accurate clinical data submission and developing strategies and corrective actions to enhance continuous compliance with measures.
- Attends required internal and external meetings as scheduled.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Qualifications:
Required:
- Bachelor's degree in a healthcare field or an Associate's degree in a healthcare field with two years of directly related experience.
- Three years of recent directly related experience.
Preferred:
- Experience in a clinical setting.
- Clinical chart review and abstraction experience.
- Database data entry and/or management experience.
Equal Opportunity Employer
McLaren Health Care is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identification, age, sex, marital status, national origin, disability, genetic information, height or weight, protected veteran or other classification protected by law.
