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e4healthCardiac Core Measure Abstraction Specialist
Aug. 2025Houston County, Texas, United States
Intermountain HealthClinical Data Abstractor
Jun. 2025 - Oct. 2025RemotePhase I • Conducted comprehensive chart abstraction to facilitate the transition from Cerner to Epic at Intermountain Health. • Ensured precise migration of clinical data, focusing on critical areas such as diagnoses and medication reconciliation. • Implemented rigorous quality assurance processes, enhancing patient safety and data integrity. Phase II • On site, elbow to elbow go-live support and analysis.
iMedXClinical Data Abstractor
Dec. 2024 - Oct. 2025United States• Quality improvement initiatives: analysis, redesign and subsequent training as they relate to clinical documentation and workflow. • Data Collection and Abstraction: Collects, abstracts data and analyzes from patient medical records, including but not limited to EPIC and Cerner. • Ensures the accuracy and completeness of abstracted data by cross-referencing information from multiple sources within a patient's medical record • Clinical Guidelines Adherence: Adheres to specific clinical data abstraction guidelines and standard for Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and The Joint Commission (TJC) as well as multiple registries including GWTG. • Data Entry and Management: Enters abstracted data into a database or registry, using specialized software, and maintains and updates the data as necessary: Qapps, Medisolv, GWTG. • Quality Assurance: Participates in quality assurance processes to ensure data integrity, involving regular audits of the data or abstraction process
Baylor College of MedicineQuality Nurse/Project Manager
Dec. 2016 - Feb. 2018Houston, Texas, United States• Project manager for Incident reporting software (RL6) implementation, including system design, implementation, elbow to elbow go-live support, training, maintenance and clinical incident root cause analysis • Developed curriculum, implemented and trained clinical staff on general orientation to Baylor College of Medicine clinics. Followed new employees through the hiring process and developed measurement standards for hiring departments • Quarterly clinic quality rounds of ambulatory clinics and outpatient surgery center • Clinical Documentation Improvement initiative: meeting CMS requirements, designing workflows to enable chart abstraction, subsequent training and quality control • ACO quality abstraction for primary core measures. Interprets data, develops action plan, meets with department leadership, trains staff. NCDR abstraction for Cardiology. HEDIS abstraction • CLIA standardization, college wide across ambulatory clinics and outpatient surgery center. Subsequent training on maintenance of point of care lab testing • Policy review and standardization • Chairman of Orientation and Competency sub-committee; wrote and coordinated first orientation class for new clinical employees at Baylor College of Medicine. Developed competency program including skills fairs for new and established clinical staff. • Nurse Educator: lead instructor for AHA CPR program, teaching faculty, staff and training new instructors • Project manager for flu shot campaign; employee and patient • Developed and presents educational material regarding clinical updates staff regarding topics such as incident reporting, improved clinical documentation, safety standards, insurance verification • Trouble shooting EpicCare Ambulatory - clinical informatics, implementation maintenance • PRN clinic coverage
Baylor College of MedicineRevenue Cycle-Senior Clinical Project Manager
Oct. 2014 - Dec. 2016Houston, Texas, United States• Clinical Documentation Improvement • Works closely with Compliance, to assure billing accuracy. Writes and oversees action plans associated with process change and/or provider counseling and training • Investigates, documents and provides analysis on clinical workflows. EPIC Ambulatory, including improvement in clinical documentation • Manages multiple projects, all with an emphasis on Process Improvement • Primary project: ProMAR (Procedures & Medication Administration) - Optimizing operations specific to procedures and medications given in the clinic. Implementation coach. Developed education materials and trained staff • Secondary project: Coding Assistance - Within EPIC (EMR) pop-ups that warn the provider of inappropriate diagnosis when used in conjunction with order specific CPT codes; ICD-10-CM (Pop-ups). Developed education materials and assisted with physician to physician education • Works closely with physicians to provide EPIC documentation templates that are compliant with regulatory statutes • Developed Medical Necessity order information, including department specific presentations, in order to educate physician and staff on proper documentation to maximize commercial and CMS payments • PRN clinic coverage • Basic Life Support program initiation and implementation
Baylor College of MedicineNursing Manager
Sep. 2013 - Oct. 2014Houston, Texas, United States
Baylor College of MedicineClinical Research Nurse
Oct. 2009 - Jan. 2011Houston, Texas, United States• Responsible for all on-going clinical trials for the Pediatric Renal Department, included NIH and industry trials. • Attended investigator meetings for all studies • Screened, recruited and randomized patients, as well as administering medications and maintaining pertinent patient and regulatory records • Experience with over 20 separate electronic medical record systems; data extraction, analysis and reporting from inpatient, outpatient and dialysis clinical records • Maintained all aspects of the research sponsor relationship which included compliance with monthly reporting, site visits and quarter Investigator meetings with multiple pharmaceutical companies as well as The National Institute of Health and the Data Coordinating Center • Coordinated the process of clinical research, including the IRB submission and budget negotiations • Served as a liaison between physicians, patients, staff and sponsors • Assisted in developing the clinical trial agreement and contract negotiation
St. Joseph Medical CenterRegistered Nurse
Aug. 2005 - Mar. 2012Houston, Texas, United States• Direct patient care to include formulation of nursing diagnosis, plan of care, medication delivery, nursing assessment and patient and family teaching • Supervision, direction and management of floor staff, to include schedule assignments, disciplinary action plans and subsequent education. • House resource for difficult IV initiation • Rapid Response Lead; as a team member responded to house wide cardiac/pulmonary codes • Direct role in EMR implementation with SuperUser experience in Horizon Clinical as well as teaching HOM • Coordinator/Liaison Hospice • Assisted with development and implementation of electronic Surgical Preference Cards and Hospital Protocols • House wide Chairperson of Nurse Practice Council • Acts as a preceptor regularly to both Nurse Interns and Nursing students • Assisted in writing and reviewing SJMC guidelines; authored the first Nurse-driven protocol at SJMC • Later moved on to Float Pool to gain a broad knowledge of the entirety of SJMC. Working in ED, Cath Lab, Wound Care Center, Occupational Health, Day Surgery, Endoscopy and all nursing units (Ortho, Tele, Med-Surg, SNF), Behavioral Medicine and Family Birth
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