Senior Manager Abstraction

Job Description:

The position of Clinical Data Management Senior Manager - Abstraction leads enterprise strategy and management of clinical registry work at Intermountain Health as a member of the Clinical Excellence Clinical Data Management leadership team. Clinical Registries are a partnership with a relevant clinical program/service/operations team to provide gold standard or regulatory required measurement for performance improvement and meet federal, state, accreditation, centers of excellence, or internal enterprise performance improvement. In many cases, registry work and performance is associated with significant monetary value to Intermountain. Scope includes all Intermountain Health clinical functions including clinical programs, service lines, shared services, medical group, acute and ambulatory care sites, following a system led, locally deployed support model where applicable to a registry. The role supports strategy and execution aligned with the Clinical Excellence team and other partners to drive overarching strategies that support the delivery of highly reliable care that is safe, high-quality, patient-centered, and equitable.

Additional Job Details:

• The caregiver in this role will be required to live in one of these states with a current Intermountain Hospital: Montana, Utah, Colorado
• This role is hybrid and will require some onsite work as needed.

Essential Functions

• Develops and leads enterprise strategy for standardization of registry related practices at an enterprise level. This includes partnership with the relevant clinical program, services, or operations team who utilize the output of the registries.  
• Implement the above strategy related to specific registries including abstraction processes, initiatives, and improvement efforts across the enterprise in support of regulatory, accreditation requirements, and third-party center of excellence certifications.
• The scope of the work beyond strategy includes leading registry evaluation, registry data life cycle including implementation, project management, education/training, inter-rater reliability abstraction processes, data improvement, submission, and performance improvement work.
• Manages abstraction professionals with human resource, operational, financial, and staffing accountability.
• The role partners with DTS and other internal organizations to implement above mentioned strategy to maximize technology and improve efficiencies in the abstraction processes.
• Partners with clinical system leaders at an enterprise, regional, market, and hospital/organization level to drive performance improvement and improved patient outcomes as define by the scope above.
• Prepares caregivers for professional growth within the organization through training and mentoring. This includes a team of senior position leaders, who implement the individual registry strategies specific to a portion of the work.  These senior position lead caregivers by influence in the related areas, but do not have HR accountability.

Skills

• Leadership
• Hospital Care Experience 
• Interpersonal Communication 
• People Management
• Teamwork 
• Regulatory Compliance 
• Quality Improvement Focus 
• Documentation 
• Presentation Skills
• Data Management / Life Cycle
• Project Management 
• Computer Literacy

Minimum Requirements

• (Master’s degree in nursing, Business, Healthcare Administration, Public Health, Informatics, Organizational Development or business/health-related field. Education must be obtained through an accredited institution. - and –
• Three or more years in Abstraction experience or equivalent direct usage of abstraction data in work experience in a healthcare setting - and –
• Three years of experience leading successful quality, safety, or patient experience improvement projects in clinical setting(s). - and -
• Two years in a role requiring effective decision-making skills and the ability to work autonomously, communicate effectively, and manage frequent variations in workload.)

- or –

• (Bachelor’s degree in business/healthcare-related field through an accredited organization
• Three or more years in abstraction experience or equivalent direct usage of abstraction data in work experience-in a health care setting and –
• T-Four or more years direct experience in a quality, safety, patient experience, clinical service or clinical program role.
• Four  or more years experience  of successful leading of  improvement projects in a clinical setting ,and –
• Two or more years of progressive leadership experience.
• Two year