Health Information Manager

Alternative titles: Transplant Coordinator

Specialisations: Clinical Trial Data Manager, Medical Records Technician, Disease Registry Technician, Medical Records Analyst, Medical Records Clerk, Casemix Coordinator, Medical Records Administrator, Clinical Coder, Health Data Administrator, Health Information Clerk, Health Information Strategy Advisor

• Supervising clerical and administrative workers involved in the maintenance of medical records
• Protecting the security of medical records to ensure that confidentiality is maintained and releasing information to authorized persons and agencies in accordance with regulations
• Transcribing, compiling and processing patient medical records, admission and discharge documents, and other medical reports into records-keeping systems to provide data for patient monitoring and referral
• Reviewing records for completeness, accuracy and compliance with regulations
• Epidemiological monitoring, research, billing, cost control and care improvement
• Planning, developing, maintaining and operating a variety of health record indexes and storage and retrieval systems to collect, classify, store and analyze information
• Translating narrative descriptions and numeric information from medical records and other documents on health services delivery into codes associated with standard classification systems