Overview
Position Overview
The Illinois Department of Public Health is seeking a highly motivated individual to perform complex technical and advisory functions to evaluate quality, completeness, and validity of cancer data, to identify program problems and prepare methods to alleviate the problems. Under direction for the Illinois State Cancer Registry, plans, reviews and ensures the efficient operation of all activities in the area of the registry operations. Plans and develops techniques for data gathering from all reporting sources. Interprets and evaluates data submitted to ISCR. Defines, develops and evaluates required data elements to be incorporated into ISCR reporting. Establishes and maintains case reporting for all reporting sources.
Job Responsibilities
1. Coordinate, directs and monitors all methods of data collection, data abstracting, data coding, data editing and other necessary functions for maintaining data reporting to ISCR.
• Resolves specialized coding and data problems.
• Monitors security measures to ensure confidentiality of information.
• Reconciles daily load files including record consolidation, merge review and multiple sequence review.
• Reconciles data edits.
2. Independently determines priority assignments for completing data reporting and individual reporting facility compliance to meet the requirements of the Illinois Health and Hazardous Substances Registry Act and the National Program of Cancer Registries.
• Provides input toward planning of special cancer data reports.
• Assists in preparation of periodic data reports for the agency, division, other agencies and the general public.
• Provides input and performs activities related to QC/QA projects.
3. Plans, directs and evaluates the development and maintenance of reporting for hospitals registries, non-registry reporting hospitals, ambulatory surgical centers, free-standing radiation therapy centers, and pathology labs within the State of Illinois.
• Coordinates interstate exchange of cancer data.
• Reviews and revises the administrative procedures coding manuals, data flow and record logs and recommends revision in data management techniques.
• Travels to attend staff meetings, educational opportunities and state cancer registrar educational conferences.
• Attends national educational conferences.
• Completes continuing education credits as required to maintain CTR designation.
4. Establishes and maintains good working relationships with state hospitals, agencies and medical institutions and laboratories.
• Evaluates medical, hospital and other institutional information sources and their data characteristics.
• Develops working agreements with reporting hospitals, medical institutions and other reporting facilities as indicated.
• Provides phone support on operational issues for reporters and reporting facilities.
5. Develops and evaluates the definition of data elements and collaborates on maintenance and modification in the registry structure and function.
6. Confers with the Registry Operations Supervisor and the ISCR Manager and ISCR Assistant Manager to advise or recommend courses of program implementation to accomplish the IHHSR mandate.
7. Performs other duties as required or assigned which are reasonably within the scope of the duties enumerated above.
About Illinois Department Public Health
In Illinois, if you have eaten at a restaurant ... required hospital or nursing home care ... vacationed at a campground or swam at a public beach or pool ... drank a glass of milk ... got married or divorced ... had a baby, the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) has touched your life in some important way.
Assuring the quality of our food, setting the standards for hospital and nursing home care, checking the safety of recreation areas, overseeing the inspection of milk producing farms and processing plants, maintaining the state's vital records and screening newborns for genetic diseases are just some of the duties of IDPH.
In fact, IDPH has 200 different programs that benefit each state resident and visitor, although its daily activities of maintaining the public's health are rarely noticed unless a breakdown in the system occurs. With the assistance of local public health agencies, these essential programs and services make up Illinois' public health system, a system that forms a frontline defense against disease through preventive measures and education. Public health has provided the foundation for remarkable gains in saving lives and reducing suffering. Today, life expectancy is 80 years for women and 74 years for men compared with fewer than 50 years at the at the beginning of the 20th century.
In the past, IDPH directed state efforts to control smallpox, cholera and typhoid, virtually eliminated polio, reduced dental decay through fluoridation of community water supplies, and corrected sanitary conditions that threatened water and food supplies.
Today, IDPH has programs to deal with persistent problems that require continued vigilance – infectious diseases, such as AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome), HIV (human immunodeficiency virus), SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) and meningococcal disease; foodborne and communicable diseases, such as E. coli 0157: H7, monkeypox, salmonella and West Nile virus; vaccine preventable diseases; lead poisoning; lack of health care in rural areas; health disparities among racial groups, breast, cervical and prostate cancer; Alzheimer's disease; and other health threats -- sexually transmitted diseases, tobacco use, violence, and other conditions associated with high-risk behaviors. In addition, IDPH has been charged with handling the state's response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the threat of bioterrorism.
IDPH, which is one of the state's oldest agencies, was first organized in 1877 with a staff of three and a two-year budget of $5,000. IDPH, now has an annual budget of $2.9 billion in state and federal funds, headquarters in Springfield and Chicago, seven regional offices located around the state, three laboratories, and 1,200 employees.
IDPH is organized into 12 offices, each of which addresses a distinct area of public health. Each office operates and supports numerous ongoing programs and is prepared to respond to extraordinary situations as they arise.
