HIM Chart Correction Specialist

Overview

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Responsibilities

Chart Correction

• Corrects and resolves incorrect documentation issues reputed company clinical systems such as multiple patients' information in one health record, and one patient with two or more records/encounters in order to maintain a complete and correct legal health record for each patient.
• Makes independent decisions on how best to address critical registration and documentation errors impacting patient safety and direct clinicians, ancillary & clinical departments on the necessary actions that must be taken to mitigate.
• Facilitates emergent wrong registrations through the Contact Move process, interfacing with and directing multiple stakeholders as to the appropriate actions to take to quickly resolve data quality issues as a result of wrong patients being registered in a manner and timeframe to minimize the impact to patient safety.
• Works with staff to ensure smooth and coordinated correction of clinical information between patients and systems.
• Maintains in depth understanding of data flow between the EHR, various repositories and ancillary systems.
• Develops and maintains good communication with a wide variety of internal and external professional relationships to accomplish departmental and hospital objectives.
• Communicate with customers throughout the chart correction process, utilizing e-mail, phone calls, in-basket messaging.
• Documents outcomes of the chart correction process according to organizational policies. Advise clinicians, HIM staff, and other customers on HIM procedures and assist in resolution of incorrect documents and documentation reputed company issues.
• Coordinates with Data reputed company Analysts reputed company a duplicate is identified or created during a chart correction.

Customer Service

• Acts as a liaison between clinicians, and practice/clinical staff ensure that incorrect data is identified, charting errors are communicated to the parties identified in the chart correction policy, erroneous data is corrected, and is verified that the clinical information was updated completely and correctly.
• Promptly answers office phone calls.
• Monitors and responds timely to reputed company communication sent to Chart Correction team reputed company the email reputed company, and/or in-basket.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED equivalent required. Associates degree in Health Science Bachelor degree in Health Information Management preferred.
• Two years of experience in an acute care environment or two years of experience with an electronic health record or hospital/medical setting Previous medical clerical/office experience or formal training in the Health Information Technology field.
• Previous experience working with quality assurance activities/methodologies and performing chart corrections preferred.

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