HIM Technician
About The Position
Adventist Health Tillamook is looking for an HIM Technician for a Full-time, Day Shift position. This role requires the individual to work onsite at our location in Tillamook, OR. The HIM Technician prepares medical records for scanning efficiency according to established procedures, guidelines, and productivity standards. They retrieve and file old paper records required for patient care, and assist with release of information services. Additionally, the technician interviews mothers for birth certificate information and enters the information into the electronic birth certificate system. They also review upended transcription queues and release them to PowerChart.
Requirements
- High School Education/GED or equivalent: Required
Nice To Haves
- Associate’s/Technical Degree or equivalent combination of education/related experience: Preferred
Responsibilities
- Prepares medical records for scanning efficiency according to established procedures, guidelines, and productivity standards.
- Retrieves and files old paper records required for patient care.
- Assists with release of information services.
- Interviews mothers for birth certificate information and enters the information into electronic birth certificate system.
- Reviews upended transcription queues and releases to PowerChart.
- Retrieves and reconciles all medical records from all nursing units and prepares the medical records for efficient scanning.
- Follows procedures for scanning documents, removes difficult to scan documents, checks patient record for poor quality, and notifies nursing unit of missing records.
- Interviews mothers for birth certificate information and enters information into electronic birth certificate system.
- Sends completed birth certificates to county and processes fetal death certificates, responds to customer inquiries regarding certificates and updates supervisor on information.
- Ensures scanning equipment is in optimal working condition.
- Scans documents, reviews images and verifies quality.
- Completes scanning process and forwards to Quality Review.
- Files paper records and pulls charts for patient care assuring that they are tracked properly in chart tracking software.
- Retrieves charts from permanent files and off site storage, keeps file room neat, and assists in purging of records by storage vendor.
- Assists physicians with inquiries regarding chart deficiencies in accordance with pertinent rules.
- Conducts chart audits, assists in deficiency analysis, resolves issues related to dictation, responds to inquiries for assistance by users of the document imaging software and transcripts.
- Performs other job-related duties as assigned.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
High school or GED
