Health Information & Records Specialist

Lifepoint Health; Somerset (KY); On-site; USD 30,000 - 48,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits

PTO & protections

Tuition assistance & 401(k)

Employee wellness

Career development

Job summary

Lake Cumberland Regional Hospital, part of Lifepoint Health, is seeking a Health Information Management Technician in Somerset, Kentucky. You will analyze records for chart completion, ensure data enters correctly, and assist physicians and staff with dictation and release of information duties.

In this role you will support the medical staff by maintaining confidentiality, logging requests for records, and helping keep Joint Commission standards intact through accurate record handling.

Qualifications

• Requires critical thinking, decisive judgment and ability to work with minimal supervision.
• Experience in release of information practices preferred.

Responsibilities

• Analyzes the assembled record for chart completion deficiencies, in accordance with regulatory requirements and medical staff rules and regulations.
• Ensures any deficiencies are assigned to the appropriate medical staff member and data is entered for tracking and monitoring purposes.
• Reviews documentation and updates or clears the deficiencies as appropriate.
• Responsible for answering telephone calls and assisting visitors while maintaining confidentiality.
• Retrieves, logs, prints medical records as requested by physicians, patients, other hospitals and entities.
• Notifies Director of any outstanding records, issues with equipment, processes or other job concerns.
• Take on-call rotation for retrieval of records and related tasks.
• Assists with other HIM daily functions.
• Works closely with physicians to ensure they are set up to dictate into the system.
• Trains physicians/APRNs to dictate and e-sign dictation and orders.
• Ensures completion of records for Joint Commission standards.
• Works the hold queue for the dictation system (twice listed in source).
• Makes physicians aware of late dictations, updates and cut-off dictation.
• Data entry for still births.

Skills

Critical thinking

Decisive judgment

Independent work

Release of information

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

Job description

Lake Cumberland Regional Hospital, part of Lifepoint Health, is seeking a Health Information Management Technician in Somerset, Kentucky. You will analyze records for chart completion, ensure data enters correctly, and assist physicians and staff with dictation and release of information duties.

In this role you will support the medical staff by maintaining confidentiality, logging requests for records, and helping keep Joint Commission standards intact through accurate record handling.