Chest Pain/MI Data Abstractor: Full-Time

October 22, 2026

Join us in advancing safer, consistent, quality healthcare for all. Job Summary: Under the direction of the Manager or Senior Manager, the Senior Clinical Data Specialist plays a vital role in delivering quality solutions to hospital partners across the country, approaching each hospital engagement as an opportunity to apply your expertise with precision. This is a unique opportunity to become a part of our team during a milestone moment in our growth, benefiting from our deep cancer registry experience and employee-centric leadership. Roles and Responsibilities: Apply specialized, clinical knowledge of hospital partners: categorize, code, summarize, interpret and calculate registry/case information from nuanced, patient medical records. Ensure quality submission of all data in specified registries or measure data repositories, maintaining a high accuracy threshold. Prioritize, organize, and meet tight deadlines for multiple concurrent tasks and team requests; use tact and judgment to manage expectations, flag obstacles, and propose solutions in a timely manner. Navigate new technical systems: electronic medical records (EMR) and registry/case entry tools; use team resources to troubleshoot technical issues with systems and applications with a focus on solutions. Contribute to team best practices, data dictionaries, abstraction guidelines, and other business rule documents; identify process improvement opportunities to help streamline tasks and processes. Keeps up to date on mandated regulatory/publicly reported data requirements as specified by federal, state, payer, and other agencies. Any or other additional responsibilities as assigned. Required Skills/Abilities: Exposure to multiple patient medical record systems (EMRs) and clinical databases. Intermediate proficiency with MS Office (Microsoft Excel). Strong analytical and critical thinking skills to approach problems in a systematic method. Demonstrates high standards for accuracy and attention to detail. Demonstrates technical savvy and strong desire to learn new systems and technology. Thrives working independently and takes ownership of projects/patient records. Consistently and clearly communicates, adjusting style and tone as needed to effectively collaborate with hospital partners, peers, team leads and others. Demonstrates strong self-organizational and time management skills to concurrently manage multiple accounts, adjusting as needed to shifting timelines and priorities. Ability to adapt to changes in timelines, requirements, and project assignments. #J-18808-Ljbffr

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