Health Information Management Technician Jobs at Affinia Healthcare
Sample Health Information Management Technician Job Description
Health Information Management Technician
POSITION SUMMARY: The Health Information Technician is responsible for maintaining and securing health information in an electronic system; ensuring that patient medical records are scanned and made available timely and accurately; comply with standards, rules, regulations as defined by state, federal, HIPAA and governing regulators; and processes requests for release of information (ROI).
Education: High School graduate or equivalent. Additional coursework in health care field required. Courses in anatomy and medical terminology helpful.
Experience:
- Two (2) years previous experience in Health Information Management required.
- Two (2) years customer service experience required.
- One (1) year Electronic Health Record experience preferred.
Skills and Abilities
- Effective verbal and written communication skills.
- Good organizational skills.
- Good critical thinking skills and decisive judgment.
- Excellent customer relations skills.
- Excellent computer skills including the use of word processing, spreadsheet, e-mail and internet
- Knowledge of legal medical record requirements, medical record forms and content.
- Ability to understand medical terminology
- Accurate keyboard skills (min. 30 wpm);
- Ability to use peripheral equipment such as printers, fax machine, photocopier and scanner;
- Ability to focus on details, and multi-task in fast-paced environment.
- Ability to work in a stressful environment and take appropriate action.
License(s)/Certification(s) Required: None. Registered Health Information Technician (RHIT) preferred.
Essential Functions
- Utilize multiple electronic health care systems to manage health information.
- Provide authorized individuals with timely access to patient information without compromising the security of patient records.
- Accepts and processes authorizations for patient medical information according to HIPAA regulations.
- Accepts subpoenas and other legal documents and processes according to HIPAA and organization policies.
- Maintains and operate a variety of health record indexes and storage and retrieval systems to collect, classify, store and analyze information.
- Ensure all health information is properly scanned.
- Faxes medical information to other medical facilities for continuing care.
- Answers and/or addresses requests for information, i.e., immunization records, physical forms, etc.
- Creates and maintains the Monthly Medical Record Invoice Report.
- Communicates with external contacts to obtain medical records for clinic and ancillary services.
- Purges medical records and file maintenance in offsite storage facility's software.
- Assists with audits and research
- Performs other duties as assigned.
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