Senior Oncology Data Lead: Cancer Registry & Insights

Atlantic Health System; Newton (NJ); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Atlantic Health System is seeking an experienced Cancer Registry Lead to collect, verify, and update patient history, symptoms, diagnoses, treatments, and health status data. The role involves coordinating abstractors, ensuring accurate coding, and providing reports for quality improvement and regulatory compliance.

The position requires NCRA certification, database experience, and a minimum of 3 years in a lead role.

Qualifications

• NCRA certification required.
• Experience working with databases.
• Minimum 3 years of lead experience.
• High school diploma/GED.

Responsibilities

• Identify, compile, update and maintain patient data from multiple sources and systems.
• Abstract data into medical software with patient demographics, history and diagnoses.
• Assign codes for treatments, procedures and diagnoses per coding standards.
• Perform lifetime follow-up for cancer incidence and outcomes in databases for quality improvement.
• Coordinate abstractors and perform quality review functions as assigned.
• Prepare narrative reports and charts/graphs for studies and annual reports.

Skills

Data extraction

Leadership

Database experience

Lead experience

Medical terminology

Education

National Cancer Registrars Association certification

Tools

Specialized medical software

Job description

Atlantic Health System is seeking an experienced Cancer Registry Lead to collect, verify, and update patient history, symptoms, diagnoses, treatments, and health status data. The role involves coordinating abstractors, ensuring accurate coding, and providing reports for quality improvement and regulatory compliance.

The position requires NCRA certification, database experience, and a minimum of 3 years in a lead role.