Job Description

Preferred Skills RHIT certification preferred

Shifts: Monday-Friday : 4pm - 12am

Supervises and coordinates the staff and daily operations of health information management within the department.

Job Responsibility

• Promotes Health Information Management department goals by selecting, motivating, and training capable team members.
• Leads the activities of assigned Health Information Management team members by communicating and providing guidance toward achieving department objectives.
• Supervises, hires, trains, disciplines, and evaluates the performance of staff; ensures performance appraisals are completed in a timely manner.
• Prioritizes, schedules, assigns, and monitors work to optimize operational service; analyzes, recommends, implements, and monitors approved work-flow changes.
• Maintains compliance with the policies and procedures of Medical Records; ensures patient medical records conform to State, Local, and Federal regulations.
• Conducts past and current audits of patient records to ensure accurate record keeping; informs and educates staff of regulatory changes, as needed.
• Participates in evaluating and implementing quality control/performance improvement related practices; implements systems and procedures that ensure timely placement of all documents into patient medical record.
• Establishes mechanisms to measure adherence to system(s) developed, and to handle delays and system errors; evaluates systems and implements modifications to ensure adherence to high quality Medical Records standards.
• Compiles data into reports, noting trends, and patterns in procedures.
• Participates in developing and delivering training related to operations Assists nursing and billing staff to access and retrieve medical record information.
• Performs related duties as required. All responsibilities noted here are considered essential functions of the job under the Americans with Disabilities Act. Duties not mentioned here, but considered related are not essential functions.

Job Qualification

• Associate's Degree required, or equivalent combination of education and related experience.
• 4-6 years of relevant experience and 0-2 years of leadership / management experience, required.

*Additional Salary Detail
The salary range and/or hourly rate listed is a good faith determination of potential base compensation that may be offered to a successful applicant for this position at the time of this job advertisement and may be modified in the future.When determining a team member's base salary and/or rate, several factors may be considered as applicable (e.g., location, specialty, service line, years of relevant experience, education, credentials, negotiated contracts, budget and internal equity).