HIM Data Integrity Analyst, University Hospital

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Louisville, Kentucky time type:
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** Primary

Location:

** University Hospital - UMC#
** Address:
** 530 South Jackson Street Louisville, KY 40202#
** Shift:
** First Shift (United States of America)#
** Job Description

Summary:

** About UofL Health:  UofL Health is a fully integrated regional academic health system with five hospitals, four medical centers, nearly 200 physician practice locations, more than 700 providers, the Frazier Rehab Institute and Brown Cancer Center.  With more than 12,000 team members—physicians, surgeons, nurses, pharmacists, and other highly skilled health care professionals—UofL Health is focused on one mission: delivering patient-centered care to each and every patient each and every day.#

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* Job Description:

**** Position Summary and Purpose
** This position is responsible for managing, monitoring, troubleshooting, analyzing, and evaluating the viability and integrity of patient data housed in all Health Information Management Systems (HIMS) in support of patient care and utilized in the storage, retrieval, data abstraction, reporting, and accessibility of the patient medical records. Improves patient safety by reviewing, researching, and resolving problems and reducing errors concerning the MPI, patient identity, duplicate medical record numbers (MRNs), and merging of patient accounts, etc.

Responsible for the oversight and auditing of opportunities with data integrity process workflows, and properly escalating concerns to HIMS Administrator. Proactively reviews clinical data abstractions for report requests prior to public dissemination as needed to internal customers to include but not limited to hospital staff, physician, administration, quality, and other revenue cycle team members.  Actively participates in department and hospital performance initiatives when needed to ensure ULH success.
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* Essential Functions:

** Data Integrity  
• Coordinate the data collection and data entry processes and prepares data lists and reports as requested.

• Resolves database issues and provides information and assistance to facilitate the process.

• Control the accuracy of all static data changes within various HIMS and validate/maintain ongoing data integrity.

• Conducts validation process and data audits as required, ensuring that the accuracy of data is maintained throughout all HIMS as well as assist in establishing procedures and best practices for documentation integrity, tracking, and reconciliation.
Statistical Reporting  
• Manages daily reporting, monitoring, evaluation, and development of the HIMS and statistical data used to make HIM-related decisions.

• Actively updates, maintains, and validates HIMS database and tables for the provision of computerized data reports.

• Perform statistical analyses and graphical representations of data for research projects, physician credentialing, and documentation compliance standards as well as determines appropriate format for data trends and outcomes presentation.

• Compile feedback for healthcare providers on critical and major errors that have the potential to impact documentation integrity and/or patient care, thereby eliminating repetition of errors.
Data Quality  
• Provide continuous quality management of data standards to ensure that PHI is useable and actionable.  
• Collect and analyze healthcare-related data and perform quality assurance for data integrity and accuracy.  
• Conduct statistical analysis and generate reports to track physician and organizational performance to established clinical and financial benchmarks and metrics. Perform quantitative and qualitative reviews prior to reporting data trends and outcomes.  
• Responsible for managing critical deliverables for multiple clinical quality improvement initiatives, technical solution implementation, and support with regulatory accreditation surveys such as Joint Commission, Trauma Registry, DRG and Coding trends, etc.
HIMS Support  
• Serve as a resource for HIMS end-users and provide…