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Medical Records and Health Information Technician Job Description

Medical Records and Health Information Technician Job Description
1. Release information to persons and agencies according to
regulations.

2. Plan, develop, maintain and operate a variety of health record
indexes and storage and retrieval systems to collect, classify, store
and analyze information.
3. Manage the department and supervise clerical workers, directing and
controlling activities of personnel in the medical records department.

4. Transcribe medical reports.
5. Identify, compile, abstract and code patient data, using standard
classification systems.

6. Resolve/clarify codes and diagnoses with conflicting, missing, or
unclear information by consulting with doctors or others to get
additional information and by participating in the coding team’s
regular meetings.
7. Train medical records staff.

8. Assign the patient to one of several hundred “diagnosis-related
groups”, or DRGs, using appropriate computer software.
9. Post medical insurance billings.

10. Process and prepare business and government forms.
11. Contact discharged patients, their families, and physicians to
maintain registry with follow-up information, such as quality of life
and length of survival of cancer patients.

12. Prepare statistical reports, narrative reports and graphic
presentations of information such as tumor registry data for use by
hospital staff, researchers, and other users.
13. Consult classification manuals to locate information about disease
processes.

14. Compile medical care and census data for statistical reports on
diseases treated, surgery performed, and use of hospital beds.
15. Develop in-service educational materials.

16. Protect the security of medical records to ensure that
confidentiality is maintained.
17. Process patient admission and discharge documents.

18. Review records for completeness, accuracy and compliance with
regulations.
19. Compile and maintain patients’ medical records to document
condition and treatment and to provide data for research or cost
control and care improvement efforts.

20. Enter data, such as demographic characteristics, history and
extent of disease, diagnostic procedures and treatment into computer.
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