POSITION SUMMARY:
The Senior Clinical Data Abstractor will be responsible for performing high-quality medical record abstraction for all of Natera's abstraction needs across cancer, solid and non-solid cancers. The Senior Clinical Data Abstractor is also responsible for tracking clinical data gaps within Natera's patient records and working with a cross-functional team across Natera's R&D, medical, and engineering team to operationalize abstraction activity.
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Responsible for performing abstraction for ad hoc and ongoing internal and external data and abstraction requests for cancer information. Abstraction responsibilities include manually reading, reviewing, and abstracting clinical data from medical records.
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- Masters degree in health sciences, bioinformatics, or related field, at minimum and 1 year of clinical data abstraction, research, or clinical data management experience, or
- Bachelors degree in health science or health related field and a minimum of 5 years of clinical data abstraction experience
- Must be a currently certified U.S licensed nurse, nurse practitioner, or physician with a speciality in cancer care and treatment, OCN preferred, with the ability to maintain certification during employment
- Must have direct experience with medical record abstraction across multiple platforms (paper records, different electronic medical record systems, EDC, registries, etc.)
- Ability to work independently, with little to no direction, and as part of a team
- Strong organizational and communication skills
- Strong research and clinical skills
- In-depth attention to detail and a fast learner
- Experience working with startup companies and respond to shifting priorities and changes
- Ability to interact with various levels of staff and external customers
- Possess a high level of initiative, self-motivation, and experience working in a senior level position
- Strong computer and Microsoft Office skills
- Experience working with multiple monitors
- Strong familiarity with oncology data codification and various clinical data ontologies such as ICD-9-CM and SNOMED CT
- Strong familiarity with data abstraction tools, EDCs, and registries and working with system change requests, and providing design input in the design of such databases.
- Experience with multiple electronic medical record systems such as Allscripts, OncoEMR, Cerner, Epic, NextGen, Meditech, Cerner, etc.
- Experience working with paper, handwritten, and electronic forms of records/unstructured data and various file formats such as pdfs, RTFs, jpegs, etc.
Driven by the passion for elevating the science and utility of genetic testing, Natera is committed to helping families identify and manage genetic diseases. Natera is a rapidly-growing diagnostics company with proprietary bioinformatics and molecular technology for analyzing DNA. Our complex technology has been proven clinically and commercially in the prenatal testing space and we are actively researching its applications in the liquid biopsy space for developing products with oncology applications.
The Natera team consists of highly dedicated statisticians, geneticists, doctors, laboratory scientists, business professionals, software engineers and many other professionals from world-class institutions, who care deeply for our work and each other. When you join Natera, you'll work hard and grow quickly. Working alongside the elite of the industry, you'll be stretched and challenged, and take pride in being part of a company that is changing the landscape of genetic disease management.