Document Imaging Technician

Good Shepherd Rehabilitation; Allentown (Lehigh County); On-site; USD 36,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

Good Shepherd Rehabilitation seeks a Document Image Technician to maintain and organize patient health information in both physical and digital formats. You will verify accuracy and scan data into the EHR to keep records current and accessible.

Responsibilities include preparing documents with correct demographics, ensuring each page is legible, and indexing records properly in Cerner. You will also file records to preserve integrity and availability.

Qualifications

• High School diploma or GED required.
• Associate degree in medical office/health information management preferred.
• 2 years of medically related clerical experience preferred.
• Fluent in reading, writing and speaking English.

Responsibilities

• Maintains and organizes patient health information in physical and digital formats.
• Scans information into the electronic medical record (EHR) ensuring accuracy.
• Preps records by verifying demographics and identifiers before scanning.
• Ensures scanned pages are readable and properly indexed to the correct chart.
• Files documents and maintains the integrity of medical records.

Skills

Data entry

Attention to detail

Communication skills

Education

High School diploma or GED

Associate degree in medical office/health information management

Tools

Cerner EMR

Job description

• The Document Image Technician is responsible for maintaining and organizing patient health information in both physical and digital formats. This involves gathering patient information, verifying its accuracy and scanning information into the electronic medical record (EHR) to ensure that patient information is accurate, up-to-date, and easily accessible.
• ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
• Ensures medical record availability collecting all discharged medical records received via the courier on a daily basis or as neededby collecting all loose sheet filing via the courier on discharged charts and scans filing in Cerner on a daily basis or as needed
• PREPPING
• Ensure all medical records are prepped appropriately by including the correct patient demographics/patient identifiers on all documents and ensure each paper is properly prepared by removing stapes, adding missing labels, and taping loose papers accordingly before scanning papers into EHRthe correct account numbers of every chart.
• SCANNING
• Ensure that each document in properly scanned into the EHR maintaining that medical records are scanned properly ensuring that each page is recognizable and belongs to the appropriate encounter/patient.
• VERIFYING
• Will catch, correct all scanning errors and will double check to ensure that demographics/patient identifiers match the data found on the record.
• FILING
• Will file documents/records appropriately and in an organized fashion.
• INTEGRITY OF MEDICAL RECORDS
• Will never compromise the integrity of the patient’s record in any way such as deleting images without replacing same or not scanning all documents required, not correcting bad images when discovered, or indexing incorrect information on records.
• QUALIFICATIONS:
• To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• Education
• High School diploma or GED required
• Associate degree in medical office/health information management with successful completion of medical and anatomical terminology courses preferred
• Work Experience
• 2 years of medically related clerical experience preferred
• Computer/data entry experience, ability to accurately sort documents alphabetically and numerically, including by terminal digit.
• Experience in quantitative and qualitative medical record analysis.
• Fluent in reading, writing and speaking English, with the ability to communicate clearly and tactfully’ writes legibly and spells correctly.