Oncology Data Specialist - Part Time - Cancer Registry

Job Description
- Oncology Data Specialist
- Part Time
- Cancer Registry (2602935)

At Stony Brook Medicine, an Oncology Data Specialist
is a valuable member of our team, who provides administrative and executive support and has the ability to interface with all levels of management throughout the hospital. Accurately obtain abstract, record and report cancer patient information from inpatient and outpatient sources in the cancer registry data base for the purposes of supporting the hospital's mission to provide excellence in patient care, education, research and planning.

• Support the hospital's Cancer Program accreditation by completing all documentation and coding specifications in preparation for submission to the National Cancer Data Base, and meet the requirements set forth by the NYS DOH Public Health Law 2401.
• Case finding: locating all internal and external sources of cancer-related patient encounters, including all cancer-related pathology reports; all radiation and medical oncology consults and treatment summaries; all inpatient admissions and outpatient encounters. Utilizing all cancer related death certificates, all tumor board case lists provided to the registry for inclusion and reporting by hospital-based physician practices.
• Abstracting: accurately recording and coding required data in consistent with New York State and national guidelines into a software program.
• Quality Review:
  Respond to abstracting errors timely to maintain the required data accuracy and consistency.

Required Qualifications: Associate’s degree. Oncology Data Specialist Certification (ODS-C).
Please Note: Verification of degree (e.g., diploma or official transcript) and certification is required for this role. Upload of documentation must be included with your application for consideration. At least 1 year of hospital/healthcare setting experience. Knowledge of New York State and national cancer coding standards. Knowledge of anatomy and physiology and advanced medical terminology. Excellent computer data entry and writing skills with ability to process high-volume work load.

Preferred Qualifications: Bachelor's degree. Previous experience in cancer registry setting, leadership role, with advanced computer and writing skills.

Resume/CV should be included with the online application.

This position will remain posted until filled or for a maximum of 90 days. An initial review of all applicants will occur two weeks from the posting date. Candidates are advised on the application that for full consideration, applications must be received before the initial review date (which is within two weeks of the posting date).

If within the initial review no candidate was selected to fill the position posted, additional applications will be considered for the posted position; however, the posting will close once a finalist is identified, and at minimal, two weeks after the initial posting date. Please note, that if no candidate were identified and hired within 90 days from initial posting, the posting would close for review, and possibly reposted at a later date.

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