Join the transformative team at City of Hope, where we're changing lives and making a real difference in the fight against cancer, diabetes, and other life-threatening illnesses. City of Hope’s growing national system includes its Los Angeles campus, a network of clinical care locations across Southern California, a new cancer center in Orange County, California, and treatment facilities in Atlanta, Chicago and Phoenix. Our dedicated and compassionate employees are driven by a common mission: To deliver the cures of tomorrow to the people who need them today. 

The Data Services team vision includes improving the quality of and managing the protection of data and information assets while enabling data literacy, access, training, documentation, and communications associated with data solutions.

The Disease Registry Analyst will be a key resource to help us accomplish these goals, by contributing to data entry, data adjudication, and quality assurance activities for the City of Hope Disease Registry. 

As a successful candidate, you will:

Data Services Operating Model:

Provide input and assist in the establishment and implementation of the data services operating model including how to manage workflow, priorities, service, stakeholder feedback, governance and overall engagement within the data office and Business, as it relates to Disease Registry and Manual Data Abstraction initiatives.

Collaborate with physicians, investigators and other institution staff to create, maintain, and execute program and workstream goals, as it relates to Disease Registry and Manual Data Abstraction initiatives.

Data Abstraction:

Domain Knowledge: Apply clinical domain knowledge to define appropriate data sources, elements, and relevant cohorts in order to extract codified data. Assist in applying domain knowledge to develop forms, data dictionaries, and database design, following national ontological standards.  Assist in the creation of documentation, specifications, and case studies. Provide domain knowledge to inform database design and assist form and data dictionary development.

Regulatory: Maintain current and accurate protocol documentation and assist investigators with IRB submissions and renewals, recommending and incorporating all pertinent protocol changes and amendments.

Data Abstraction and Processes: Manages the data for the disease registry, that includes clinical data abstraction, processing data, maintaining record systems, and producing project reports for studies. Maintains detailed documentation of data abstraction processes and procedures for reference and auditing purposes. Create documentation, specifications, and case studies for Disease Registry databases. Conduct special projects as a member of the team with biostatisticians, Data Mining staff, Disease Registry Administrator, and Division Managers.  Provide ad hoc information and reports based on requests from the Disease Registry team and research

Data Team Support:

Serve as the clinical data domain expert in the Enterprise Data Group for ad hoc data initiatives.

In collaboration with the QA, Training and Data Analysis teams, assist in the review results of NLP and text mining queries to validate data extraction of unstructured text into codified data elements.

Assist data team in documenting system requirement specifications and use test cases.

Assist data team in comparing and validating data elements across enterprise data sources using clinical knowledge to suggest improvements.  

Assist data team in determining opportunities for improvement to data collection methods and abstraction procedures.

Continuous technical skill growth and improvement in areas of data literacy, data warehousing, querying of data and efficient compilation of datasets to support the needs of the department.

Your qualifications should include:

• Bachelor’s Degree

• 3+ years of experience working as a Disease Registrar or related position in the oncology setting.

• If education requirements are not met, at least seven years of experience as Disease Registrar or similar position in oncology setting required.

• Medical record abstraction experience

• Data quality and validation expertise

  Preferred experience: 

• SQL querying    

• Experience abstracting from Epic or other EMRs

• Experience supporting oncology research studies

• Experience with disease registries and longitudinal patient data

• Quality assurance and auditing experience

• Experience validating data across multiple sources

Additional Information:

Job Status: Full time, exempt

Salary range $ 84,905 - $131,605

City of Hope employees pay is based on the following criteria:  work experience, qualifications, and work location.

City of Hope is an equal opportunity employer.

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