Medical Records Technician- Women's Health Administration, Part Time, First

UC Health is hiring a part time Medical Records Technician in the Women's Health Administration department for the University of Cincinnati location.

The Medical Records Technician completes the of release of information requests in accordance with HIPAA/confidentiality regulations and established departmental turnaround time. They complete Birth Certificates/IPHIS abstraction in accordance with state mandates, in an accurate/timely manner. Ensuring the data integrity of patient medical records across hospital wide patient information systems.

• Demonstrated competence with clinical applications for health record processing. Proficiently navigates through the clinical applications to identify patient demographics, provide patient information to appropriate requestors in timely manner and verifies the accuracy of the demographic information.
• Responsible for the confidentiality and security of all patient health records for the hospital. Understands all rules and regulations regarding the proper release of patient information. Keep up to date on any changes with rules and regulations associated with patient confidentiality and privacy.
• Ability to complete Birth Certificates for patients in a timely/accurate manner and in accordance with state timelines-inclusive of data collection, affidavit completion, and IPHIS abstracting.
• Monitors the data integrity of patient's medical record across all patient information systems. Proficiently navigates through software applications utilized in MPI validation, inclusive of duplicate medical record numbers, patient merge/unmerges overlays and name discrepancies.
• Good customer services skills and excellent communication skills for handling all release of information requests received from our patients, insurance companies or other entities.
• Ability to meet productivity and quality standards according to department policy and procedure for each job function. (Meets standards - does well; Below standards - needs improvement.
• Accurate completion of all other duties as assigned by the HIM Mgt team.

Education and Experience:

• Minimum Required: High school graduate required.
• Preferred: Associate Degree.
• Registered Health Information Technician (RHIT) preferred, (or RHIT eligible).
• 2 years experience in Health Information Management or related health care/office experience.
• Microsoft office suite, basic medical terminology.
• Demonstrated understanding of HIPAA/confidentiality
  guidelines.
• Excellent customer service skills/telephone etiquette skills. Keyboarding/data entry skills and
  experience with office related equipment preferred

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