Health Information Technologists and Medical Registrars

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Job Description

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Key Tasks

• Assign the patient to diagnosis-related groups (DRGs), using appropriate computer software.
• Compile medical care and census data for statistical reports on diseases treated, surgery performed, or use of hospital beds.
• Design databases to support healthcare applications, ensuring security, performance and reliability.
• Develop in-service educational materials.
• Evaluate and recommend upgrades or improvements to existing computerized healthcare systems.
• Facilitate and promote activities, such as lunches, seminars, or tours, to foster healthcare information privacy or security awareness within the organization.
• Identify, compile, abstract, and code patient data, using standard classification systems.
• Manage the department or supervise clerical workers, directing or controlling activities of personnel in the medical records department.
• Monitor changes in legislation and accreditation standards that affect information security or privacy in the computerized healthcare system.
• Plan, develop, maintain, or operate a variety of health record indexes or storage and retrieval systems to collect, classify, store, or analyze information.
• Prepare statistical reports, narrative reports, or graphic presentations of information, such as tumor registry data for use by hospital staff, researchers, or other users.
• Protect the security of medical records to ensure that confidentiality is maintained.
• Resolve or clarify codes or diagnoses with conflicting, missing, or unclear information by consulting with doctors or others or by participating in the coding team's regular meetings.
• Retrieve patient medical records for physicians, technicians, or other medical personnel.
• Train medical records staff.
• Write or maintain archived procedures, procedural codes, or queries for applications.

O*NET Information

• SOC Code: 29-9021.00
• Title: Health Information Technologists and Medical Registrars

Related Occupations

Based on O*NET Standard Occupational Classification.

Career Resources

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