Health Information Management Technician - CBO Medical Records Services - Full Time - Days

The Scanning Technician is responsible for picking up, preparing, scanning, and the quality assurance of any and all forms used to document patient care into the clinical information system.  

Pick up charts from various areas within the hospital.

1. Ensure all charts are picked up, investigates, and documents any missing charts.
2. Checks in charts that have been received. 
3. Investigates charts not on discharge list. 

 

Prepares charts for scanning. 

       1.   Ensures patient labels are accurate/correct on all documents to be scanned. 

       2.   Ensures that the appropriate barcode is properly affixed to each non-barcoded  

             document  

       3.   Investigates any and all forms with no patient labels affixed for accurate prepping. 

 

Performs Quality Assurance and Deficiency Completion on Scanned Documents

1. Reconciles the paper document with the scanned image to ensure all paper has 

              been scanned.

1. Ensures the image quality is good, the document is the correct type, and the proper 

              keywords are assigned to the document.

 

Scans Charts by record type

Indexes scanned documents to ensure correct placement of a document within the chart.   

Reconciling and Processing of Medical Records and Work queues

1. 30 Day Scanned Batched for confidential Destruction 
2. ‘Needs Scanning Deficiency” Work queue with QA Discharge Lists

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS:

 

EDUCATION:    High School graduate or equivalent

                                                                           

YEARS OF EXPERIENCE:  Previous experience in Health Information Management preferred

                                                      

REQUIRED SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE: Protect the security of medical records to ensure that confidentiality is maintained. Knowledge of medical terminology. Position requires ability to interact with various individuals. Good communication skills, attention to detail, data entry skills, knowledge of PC and printer operations, telephone etiquette, use of copy machine and fax machine.