Director, Clinical Resource Systems/HIM

The New Jewish Home•New York, NY

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Manhattan Nursing Home of The New Jewish Home is seeking a Director of Clinical Resource Systems/HIM to join their team. This position is responsible for the integrity of paper and electronic patient data throughout The New Jewish Home.

Requirements

Integrity of paper and electronic patient data
Organized, accurate, comprehensive and secure patient records
Discharged patient records complete and maintained according to facility policy and DOH regulation
Policies and procedures for patient information collection, storage, and security according to regulation
Accurate and timely diagnosis coding
Processing of patient/family requests for copies of patient data according to facility policy
Processing of medical/legal claims according to facility policy
Reporting of potential legal/risk issues to carrier and maintaining records
Ensuring patient data availability for audits
Hiring, training, supervision, support, and evaluation of HIM staff
Accurate and timely payroll completion for HIM staff
Development, monitoring, and meeting of annual HIM department budget expectations
Coordination/facilitation of statistical report preparation
Optimization of client and family experience with HIM
Staying current with all new regulations/updates related to health information

Responsibilities

Ensures that patient records are maintained in an organized, accurate, comprehensive and secure fashion.
Ensures that records of discharged patients are complete and maintained according to facility policy and DOH regulation.
Creates and keeps current policies and procedures to ensure that patient information is collected, stored and secured, according to regulation.
Ensures that diagnosis coding is done accurately and in a timely fashion.
Ensures that patient/family requests for copies of patient data are processed and realized according to facility policy.
Works with the legal department to ensure that all medical/legal claims received are processed according to facility policy.
Works with Risk Management team to ensure potential legal/risk issues are reported to carrier and records maintained as needed.
Works with colleagues to ensure that patient data is available for audits being conducted.
Hires, trains, supervises, supports, and evaluates all staff working in the HIM departments.
Ensures payroll is completed accurately and in a timely fashion for all staff working in the HIM departments.
Develops, monitors and meets the annual budget expectations of the HIM departments.
Coordinates/facilitates statistical report preparation as requested.
Ensures that the client and family experience with HIM is optimized.
Keeps current of all new regulations/updates related to health information.
Other duties as assigned.