Trauma Registry Specialist, Trauma Registration Remote, RESIDE IN California

Position: Trauma Registry Specialist, Trauma Registration, Full-Time, Days, Remote, MUST RESIDE IN CALIFORNIA
Location: Greenbrae

ABOUT MARINHEALTH

Are you looking for a place where you are empowered to bring innovation to reality? Join Marin Health, an integrated, independent healthcare system with deep roots throughout the North Bay. With a world-class physician and clinical team, an affiliation with UCSF Health, an ever-expanding network of clinics, and a new state-of-the-art hospital, Marin Health is growing quickly. Marin Health comprises Marin Health Medical Center, a 327-bed hospital in Greenbrae, and 55 primary care and specialty clinics in Marin, Sonoma, and Napa Counties.

We attract healthcare's most talented trailblazers who appreciate having the best of both worlds: the pioneering medicine of an academic medical center combined with an independent hospital's personalized, caring touch.

Marin Health is already realizing the benefits of impressive growth and has consistently earned high praise and accolades, including being Named One of the Top 250 Hospitals Nationwide by Health grades, receiving a 5-star Ranking for Overall Hospital Quality from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and being named the Best Hospital in San Francisco/Marin by Bay Area Parent, among others.

Company:

Marin General Hospital dba Marin Health Medical Center

Compensation Range:

$33.35 - $50.02

Work Shift:

8 Hour (days) (United States of America)

Scheduled Weekly

Hours:

40

Job Description

Summary:

The Trauma Registry Specialist is responsible for maintaining and completing current and accurate Trauma Registry (inpatient, outpatient trauma patient) databases, which contain patient-care information from the following phases of care: pre-hospital, emergency room, hospital course, and final outcome. Completed work and decisions made are not reviewed when performed within established departmental guidelines. Work is assigned according to patient census data. Work and decisions are subject to review when guidelines require extension and/or interpretation and when proposed solutions affect the work within the Department.

Guidelines include policies, procedures, and precedents of the Department, and Marin Health Medical Center.

Job Requirements , Prerequisites and

Essential Functions:

Job Specifications:

Education:

* High school graduate or equivalent
• College course work in business, computers, data-entry, or related fields is desirable

Experience:

* 1-2 years' experience in abstracting data from medical records, preferably ED/Trauma related

* Experience in data collection using ICD-10 clinical manager codes preferred

License and

Certifications:

* ICD-10 Course Cert within last 5 years

* ATS Trauma Registry

* AIS 05/08 or AIS 15

* CAISS Course Cert preferred

* CSTR Course Cert preferred

Prerequisite

Skills:

* Demonstrated ability to understand medical terminology and the ability to identify and abstract medical data from paper and electronic medical records

* Demonstrated ability to work accurately work accurately under department timelines, exercising good judgement with minimal supervision

* Strong typing and computer skills (data entry/retrieval techniques)

* Demonstrated computer and software troubleshooting skills, including spreadsheets and word processing

* Ability to read and interpret written and transcribed documents in the medical record, and ability to enter complete data into on-line computer system

* Excellent written and verbal communication/interpersonal skills and the ability to deal with individuals of varying comprehension levels

* Must possess tact and diplomacy skills to obtain information from a variety of hospital and public sources

* Demonstrated ability to analyze and interpret data

Primary Customer Served (Age Specific Criteria):

* This position is not a patient care position, and as such, this section does not apply.

Patient Privacy (HIPAA Compliance):

* Employees in this position have access to protected health information. The protected health information a person in this position can access includes demographics, date of service, insurance/billing, medical record summary information, and all other information that may be contained in patient records. This position requires patient health information to perform the functions outlined as…