Health Information Management Analyst (Onsite)

Beth Israel Lahey Health; Cambridge (MA); On-site; USD 26,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

Beth Israel Lahey Health in Massachusetts is seeking a Health Information Management Analyst to perform deficiency analysis related to the EMR system. The role involves assigning deficiencies, liaising with clinicians, and optimizing EMR workflows, with on-site duties at Mount Auburn Hospital.

Essential duties include reviewing medical records in work queues, scanning discharge paperwork with high accuracy, and ensuring proper documentation per Joint Commission and CMS standards.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent required.
• Three years of experience in a medical records department.
• Epic experience desirable.

Responsibilities

• Analyze medical records within work queues for deficiency patterns.
• Assign deficiencies to the appropriate physician in Epic.
• Ensure accurate impairment documentation and 98% scan accuracy.
• Collaborate with clinicians to resolve deficiency-related questions.
• Maintain daily unassigned and declined deficiency work queues.
• Enter deficiencies in Epic using the Deficiency Detective tool with accuracy.

Skills

Deficiency analysis

Medical terminology

Medical records content

EMR knowledge

Healthcare confidentiality laws

Education

High school education or equivalent

Tools

Epic EMR

Job description

When you join the growing BILH team, you’re not just taking a job, you’re making a difference in people’s lives.

Under the direction of the Manager of Health Information Management, the Health Information Management Analyst performs deficiency analysis related to the EMR system.

This position will also assign medical record deficiencies and will serve as a liaison between Health Information Management (HIM) and clinicians in support of optimizing the EMR workflow associated with deficiency assignment and basket management.

On-site position at Mount Auburn Hospital

Essential Duties & Responsibilities including but not limited to:

• 1. Completes the analysis of the medical records within the work queues.
• 2. Scans discharge paperwork that is received from the medical floors with 98% accuracy.
• 3. Ensures the accuracy of patient information scanned into the patient's chart.
• 4. Verifies that all scans are legible and clear.
• 5. Accurately analyzes records for documentation requirements per Joint Commission, CMS, DPH regulations, and Medical Staff Bylaws and department procedures.
• 6. Assigns deficiencies requiring completion to the appropriate physician within Epic.
• 7. Ensures the accuracy of the assignment of deficiencies. Average of 7-10 charts per hour for inpatients and 10-12 per hour for outpatients.
• 8. Keeps current with documentation regulations/requirements and assists physicians as needed when questions arise regarding documentation requirements.
• 9. Works collaboratively with physicians to resolve any discrepancies with regard to deficiency assignment.
• 10. Adds all record deficiencies into Epic using the Deficiency Detective resource with 100% accuracy.
• 11. Ensures instances of incorrect physician assignment for a deficiency are less than 1%.
• 12. Completes the declined deficiency work queue, reassigning declined orders to the correct provider after investigating the patient's chart.
• 13. Completes the unassigned analysis work queue, ensuring this work queue is completed daily.
• 14. Collects 100% of discharge paperwork from patient care areas, including any hardcopy medical records, based on the information from the list of discharges.
• 15. Runs and works the chartless deficiencies.
• 16. Runs the NE analyst pool report and assigns the deficiency to the correct provider.
• 17. Verifies that the completed deficiencies are done accurately.
• 18. Investigates and adds deficiencies as needed for coding.
• 19. Assist physicians as necessary, attaching to their in-basket.
• 20. Other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Education: High school education or equivalent.
• Licensure, Certification & Registration: N/A
• Experience:
  • Three years' experience in a medical record department.
  • Prior Epic experience desirable
• Skills, Knowledge & Abilities:
  • Knowledge of deficiency analysis
  • Medical terminology
  • Knowledge of medical records content and management
  • Working knowledge of the EMR, either through experience or education, including experience working with structured data and database management
  • Knowledge of laws and regulations pertaining to health information and patient confidentiality

Pay Range:

$19.00 - $25.57

As a health care organization, we have a responsibility to do everything in our power to care for and protect our patients, our colleagues and our communities.

Beth Israel Lahey Health requires that all staff be vaccinated against influenza (flu) as a condition of employment.

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