Beamtree is a global AI health technology company and Australian listed business, delivering even better value to healthcare systems internationally. The focus of our clinical coding products and services are to improve the quality and timeliness of coded clinical data, as well as provide a platform for analytic analysis to enable and inform decisions and management functions within healthcare.
The Role
The Clinical Coding & Data Quality Lead for Canada is a permanent, full time role with with remote work flexibility. You will work closely with our Coding and Data Quality team located in Australia and the United Kingdom. In this role, you will be responsible for championing our coding products, continuously listening to client feedback and understanding the market, supporting the development of our coding product roadmap and articulating the business need for new features and enhancements. This pivotal role will provide expert advice internally and externally to clients on health information management and coding best practices, will ensure alignment of our products with industry standards and regulations, and will lead client facing initiatives to improve clinical coding and data quality, and leverage the value of clinically coded data in improving patient outcomes and health system efficiency.
Job Description
The Role in Practice
The Clinical Coding & Data Quality Lead will work closely with cross-functional teams working internationally, including product management, engineering, sales, marketing, and the data and insights team, to support seamless operations of our coding products and successful product delivery in Canada. Some of the key accountabilities are:
Be the Product Specialist for Canada across all Beamtree’s core coding products
Advise on and direct the development and enhancement of Beamtree’s coding products and roadmap for Canada, in alignment with coding standards and rules, and the creation and implementation of quality assurance indicators and autonomous coding rules within Beamtree’s coding products
Support new client onboarding, implement and manage a training and education framework for all Canadian coding products, and deliver of training and education to internal teams and clients
Champion and promote Beamtree’s coding products at industry networking events, conferences and other active marketing opportunities internally and externally
Support Beamtree’s Sales and Client Relationships teams in business development activities, demonstrating the value of our coding products to clients, and assisting with product proposals, sales pitches and demonstrations
Evaluate our coding products value proposition for clients, and identify and develop case studies to promote our products
Work with the Australian-based Coding and Data Quality Team to advise on and support prioritisation of the coding products roadmap, and define and assure business requirements for new features and enhancements, as well as other products which leverage clinically coded data including benchmarking and analytics services
Provide expert advice and consultation to clients on health information management, clinical coding, and data quality improvement
Lead and manage health information management and coding advisory projects onsite and remotely, including defining project methodologies such as coding audit frameworks and methodologies
Present outcomes of advisory and audit projects to various stakeholders, including presenting findings and recommendations to senior management and the provision of education to coding teams
Manage Beamtree’s Canadian Clinical Coding Auditors (contracted roles as required)
Apply continuous quality improvement strategies to all aspects of work
Support other health information and business development activities across Beamtree as required.
Desired Skills and Experience
Who You Are
To be successful in this role, you will have a passion for using quality clinical data to improve health outcomes and patient care. You will also have:
Extensive experience coding all specialties with a minimum of five (5) years clinical coding experience in Canada
Relevant Health Information Management or clinical coding qualifications
Adherence to the Canadian coding standards including ICD-10-CA and CCI classifications, ensuring accurate clinical coding assignment to meet compliance and reporting requirements
Maintain relevant professional development in relation to clinical coding and related standards, Canadian legislation and funding systems, clinical information systems, clinical practices, and health information management requirements.
Previous auditing, training and education experience is highly desirable
Experience delivering digital tools or services in a Canadian healthcare setting is highly desirable
Ability to self-manage to successfully deliver on customer requirements, the needs of your colleagues, and corporate strategic initiatives
Ability to prioritise and organise workload effectively and efficiently
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Self-directed, motivated, and committed to self-improvement
Strong attention to detail and commitment to quality
Effective leadership, strong communication and team collaboration skills, including working with cross-functional teams
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to confidently present and speak publicly
Strong customer service focus and interpersonal skills
Ability to work flexibly to liaise with colleagues in other time zones as required
Willingness to travel as required.
Why Join Us?
For more than two decades, Beamtree has helped health providers make better decisions thanks to our pioneering data insights and benchmarking. We believe in creating a better future for health by turning data into insights and action through automation. Our mission is simple: harness data for better care. Beamtree believes it starts with better data and ends in better care - and that better has no limit.
We offer 5 weeks annual leave each year, workplace flexibility and interesting work with intelligent people creating positive impacts across health organisations we work with every day.
Beamtree offers a dynamic, welcoming workplace culture supported by our core values and we continue to grow.