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Job Requisition ID:
R00050006
Job Category:
Professional and Technical
Organization:
Transplant Business Operations
Location/s:
Main Campus Jackson
Job Title:
Data Quality Analyst - Transplant
Job Summary:
To coordinate, audit, and report compliance with data quality standards requirements of accrediting and funding agencies. Educate physicians, registrars, and reporting facilities on data quality standards and accountability measures.
Education & Experience
Education and Experience Required:
Degree (Bachelor's or Associate's) in a health related field
Certifications, Licenses or Registration required:
N/A
Preferred Qualifications:
Oncology Data Specialist (ODS) certification by the National Cancer Registrars Association (NCRA) if working in Oncology
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
Knowledge of health records and health record documentation. Presentation skills and knowledge of the use of personal computers and related software applications. Verbal and written communication skills. Ability to analyze information and draw conclusions. Must have organizational skills.
Responsibilities
- Coordinates, monitors and reports data quality and quality improvement activities; presents findings to external facility or appropriate internal committee/team.
- Implements and maintains data quality procedures to ensure compliance with external regulatory and accreditation requirements.
- Reviews, re-abstracts data, and prepares reports on physician or registrar compliance with staging, abstracting or coding standards.
- Collects and summarizes data quality or outcomes measures and reports findings to external facilities or internal committee/multidisciplinary team.
- Plans, develops, coordinates and makes presentations at training and educational programs relative to data quality and accountability measures.
- Reviews pathology reports and/or disease indices to identify reportable cases; works with physician or reporting facility to obtain missing cases/data or get case staged.
- Works with multidisciplinary site teams to develop processes and procedures to monitor and report performance levels and outcomes for accountability or standards measure.
- Abstracts data from patient medical records to include patient demographics, diagnostic procedures, history and extent of disease, treatment and follow-up, physician staging or assessment and other related information.
- Communicates with physicians and other departments to assure ongoing quality indicators are reported to the appropriate committee for review.
- Serves as a resource for physicians and reporting facilities in staging, abstracting, coding, and case reportability.
- The duties listed are general in nature and are examples of the duties and responsibilities performed and are not meant to be construed as exclusive or all-inclusive. Management retains the right to add or change duties at any time.
Physical and Environmental Demands:
Requires occasional exposure to unpleasant or disagreeable physical environment such as high noise level and exposure to heat and cold, occasional activities subject to significant volume changes of a seasonal/clinical nature, occasional work produced subject to precise measures of quantity and quality, occasional bending, occasional lifting and carrying up to 25 pounds, occasional climbing, occasional crouching/stooping, occasional driving, occasional pushing/pulling, occasional reaching, frequent sitting, occasional standing, occasional twisting, and frequent walking. (occasional-up to 20%, frequent-from 21% to 50%, constant-51% or more)
Time Type:
Full time
FLSA Designation/Job Exempt:
Yes
Pay Class:
Salary
FTE %:
100
Work Shift:
Benefits Eligibility:
Grant Funded:
Job Posting Date:
08/17/2026
Job Closing Date (open until filled if no date specified):
08/18/2026
