Medical Records Specialist
- Ideal for detail-oriented individuals passionate about healthcare data management.
- Ensure accurate medical records, impacting patient care and healthcare efficiency.
- Unique role in transforming medical data into actionable insights for better outcomes.
💰 Earn $43K-$75K
📚 Vocational Training
Overview
Compile, process, and maintain medical records of hospital and clinic patients in a manner consistent with medical, administrative, ethical, legal, and regulatory requirements of the healthcare system. Classify medical and healthcare concepts, including diagnosis, procedures, medical services, and equipment, into the healthcare industry's numerical coding system. Includes medical coders.Scoop
Excellent (Increasing by 5% or more)
Day-to-Day
- Assign the patient to diagnosis-related groups (DRGs), using appropriate computer software.
- Compile and maintain patients' medical records to document condition and treatment and to provide data for research or cost control and care improvement efforts.
- Consult classification manuals to locate information about disease processes.
- Enter data, such as demographic characteristics, history and extent of disease, diagnostic procedures, or treatment into computer.
- Identify, compile, abstract, and code patient data, using standard classification systems.
Best For You If...
YOU Like 💕
- Using data or completing tasks
- Relating with or serving others
You are skilled in 💫
- Service Orientation
- Social Perceptiveness
- Coordination
- Speaking
- Active Listening
You value 🙏
- Having support
- Job security
- Personal relationships
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