Database Specialist

The primary purpose for this position is to provide support to the Blood Cancer Healing Center (BCHC) within UCHealth. Employee will abstract demographic and clinical data from patient medical records, and enter data into databases as required. Employee performs quality control checks to ensure accuracy, consistency, and quality of data. Employee completes work according to department schedule/calendar.  Employee will audit records as directed, and provide back up for other employees within the department.

Responsibilities:

• Abstracts demographic and clinical data from patient records and inputs data into the database.
• Prepares bi-weekly, monthly, and annual statistical reports.
• Abstracts and retrieves data from the database for research projects, quality management, financial, and utilization studies.
• Performs quality control checks to ensure accuracy, consistency, and quality of data.
• Audits patient records and databases.
• Performs general office functions such as typing, utilizing spreadsheets for charts, graphs, and tables, and maintaining electronic file systems.
• Provides back-up support for other employees.

Physical Activities:

• Climbing: Ascending or descending stairs, ladders, or ramps using feet, legs, hands, and arms.
• Stooping: Bending body downward and forward by bending spine at the waist.
• Kneeling: Bending legs at knees to rest on one or both knees.
• Reaching: Extending hands and arms in any direction.
• Standing: Remaining upright on the feet, particularly for sustained periods.
• Sitting: Remaining seated for extended durations.
• Walking: Moving about on foot to accomplish tasks.
• Pushing: Using upper extremities to press against objects to move them forward, downward, or outward.
• Fingering: Picking, pinching, typing, or working primarily with fingers rather than the hand or arm.
• Feeling: Perceiving attributes of objects such as size, shape, temperature, or texture through touch.
• Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by spoken word, conveying detailed instructions to others.
• Hearing: Perceiving the nature of sounds to receive detailed information through oral communication.
• Seeing: Using vision to discern the position, shape, color, depth, or texture of objects for activities.

•  High School Diploma Required 
• 1-3 years experience in medical or laboratory setting preferred. 
•  Experience with oncology/hematology preferred.