Job Description

Shift : Days
Weekly Hours: 40(8*5)
Job Duration: 3 - 6 months(High possibility of extension)

• Compiles health information (e.g., reviews, catalogs & checks medical reports for completeness; organizes medical reports for placement in files; reviews charts to ensure all reports & signatures are present). 
• Types health information forms (e.g., prepares charts for new admissions; fills out forms; prepares requests for specific reports or certificates). 
• Compiles & types statistical reports such as daily & monthly census, Medicaid days, admissions, discharges, or length of stay. 
• Files reports into health information records, records information in logs & files & retrieves health information records in filing system. 
• Provides information from health information records after determining appropriateness of request. 
• Coordinates with other departments concerning health information records procedures. 

MAJOR WORKER CHARACTERISTICS:  

• Knowledge of health information technology; JCAH & Medicare/Medicaid regulations governing medical record keeping; 
• Requirements governing confidentiality of patient information; medical terminology. 
• Skill in the use of a typewriter &/or word processor & calculator. 
• Ability to deal with problems involving a few variables within a familiar context; write routine business letters, evaluations or records following standard procedures; proofread medical reports & recognize errors; 
• Recognize when medical records information is missing; 
• Gather, collate & classify information about data, people or things. 
• Developed after employment. 

MINIMUM CLASS QUALIFICATIONS FOR EMPLOYMENT:

• 3 courses or 9 mos. exp. in records management; 1
• course or 3 mos. exp. in medical terminology; 
• 1 course or 3 mos. exp. in typing. 

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