Health Information Management Specialist - Full Time at Utah Navajo Health System
Utah Navajo Health System · Blanding, United States Of America · Onsite
- Junior
- Office in Blanding
Description
- Location: Blanding, UT
- Full-time Benefits include: Full health insurance, 5% of gross to a 403b retirement account, life insurance, Vacation leave, PTO leave, Holiday pay, Short/Long term disability, wellness benefit
- Wage depends on experience
Critical Tasks:
- Communicate and work with health care staff, billing, IT, IS, and other departments to manage, retain, retrieve and disperse health care information.
- Communicate and work with patients and outside agencies to ensure health information accuracy and appropriate information sharing.
- Collect and analyze patient data, use classification systems and medical terminologies.
- Possess comprehensive knowledge of state and federal HIPAA legal requirements and standards related to healthcare delivery and privacy of patient's protected health information.
- Work specific with UNHS medical staff and outside providers to retrieve, share, and store patient reports and other health care information.
- Operate computer programs including but not limited to an electronic health record; to process, store, and retrieve patient health information from both internal and external sources.
- Maintain and utilize a variety of health record indexes, storage, and collection in order to analyze, file, and retrieve patient health information.
- Assist and or train as needed other employees in medical records processing.
- Any other tasks, projects, or duties that are requested by the Employee's supervisor or other UNHS management or administration that is all reasonably related to UNHS and/or the Employee's employment with UNHS.
Requirements
- Professionalism and accuracy when working with health care staff, billing, IT, IS, and other departments relating to patient health information.
- Professionalism and accuracy when working with the patient, other agencies, or the public to discuss and disperse patient health information.
- Know basic medical terminology and label patient information so it can be identified and easily retrieved.
- Follow HIPAA regulations in all interactions with patients, co-workers and outside agencies.
- Organized system and open communication with medical staff for tracking and completing patient referrals.
- Maintain computer skills in managing the patient EMR.
- Understand how to access and retrieve electronic forms of historical patient information that is not in the EMR.
- Be available and able to communicate to be a resource to help others learn how to best utilize the EMR.
- Understand and demonstrate being a team member when requested to help other company departments or as part of special events.
License/Certification:
- A high school diploma or equivalent.
