Abstraction Specialist

We're looking for Oncology Nurses, Clinical Research Associates and Clinical Trial Managers to help us accomplish our mission to improve and extend lives by learning from the experience of every person with cancer. Are you ready to be the next changemaker in cancer care?

Flatiron Health is a healthtech company using data for good to power smarter care for every person with cancer, around the world. Flatiron partners with cancer centers in the US, Europe and Asia to transform patients' real-life experiences into real-world evidence and create a more modern, connected oncology ecosystem. Our multidisciplinary teams include oncologists, data scientists, software engineers, epidemiologists, product experts and more. Flatiron Health is an independent affiliate of the Roche Group.

**What You'll Do**

In this role, you will be responsible for working with the clinical team to further develop our end-to-end abstraction processes. Abstraction involves extracting complex unstructured clinical data from electronic medical records using our proprietary software, ensuring high quality data that benefit cancer patients. In this role you will:

- Develop and update data curation instruction documents as well as data capture forms for multiple tumour types and their diagnostic and therapeutic areas in throughout haematology and oncology
- Support data quality and control activities, including clarifying guidance, correcting errors and refining abstraction instructions in order to build up and maintain high quality data sets
- Help hiring, onboarding and training abstractors and be a point-of-contact for any abstraction-related question
- Plan feasibility and initial testing of novel data points or new abstraction approaches
- Give feedback on and help further develop and validate our abstraction tool
- Support quality assurance on dataset deliverables and data analyses
- Collaborate with a cross-functional team including technical (e.g., software engineers), data insight engineers, data privacy experts, quantitative scientists, and other clinical professionals
- Help with abstraction work in peak seasons

**Who You Are**

You're a kind, passionate and collaborative problem-solver who values the opportunity to think beyond the way things are. In addition, you're a team player with experience in clinical and/or data documentation experience in the oncology/haematology space across multiple tumour types.
- You have completed training as a medical documentation assistant, ideally further training as a study nurse, clinical research associate (CRA), clinical trial manager or comparable professional experience.
- Alternatively, you have a university degree in applied sciences or a bachelor's or master's degree in the fields of health sciences, biology, molecular medicine or you have education as a nurse with additional training or several years of clinical work in oncology/ haematology
- You are familiar with all aspects of how cancer is managed, from diagnosis until cessation of treatment, and fluent in cancer terminology as well as in general German medical terminology
- You have experience with the presentation of clinical data (e.g. ICD codes, cancer registry data) and the treatment pathways in oncology care
- You have data entry experience, familiarity with clinical systems, data entry tools, and other data management systems
- You have familiarity with electronic health record systems, electronic data capture forms or other data management systems
- You have strong communication skills, including the ability to communicate clinical issues effectively with a diverse team of software engineers, product managers, and other technical staff
- You demonstrate exceptional attention to detail
- You enjoy working in a fast-paced, cross functional and international environment and are able to react with flexibility to ambiguity
- You are fluent in German (C-level) and have very good English proficiencies (minimum requirement B2-level)

**Who We Are**

Our people are at the center of everything we do. We strive to foster a culture where our teammates feel equipped and empowered to make meaningful contributions with confidence, compassion, and clarity. Visit the Life at Flatiron page to learn more.