Job Description:

• 1) Plans, develops, and administers health information system for health care facility consistent with standards of accrediting and regulatory agencies and requirements of health care system: Develops and implements policies and procedures for documenting, storing, and retrieving information, and for processing medical-legal documents, insurance data, and correspondence requests, in conformance with federal, state, and local statutes.

• 2) Supervises staff, directly or through subordinates, in preparing and analyzing medical documents.

• 3) Participates in development and design of computer software for computerized health information system.

• 4) Coordinates medical care evaluation with medical staff and develops criteria and methods for such evaluation.

• 5) Develops in-service educational materials and conducts instructional programs for health care personnel.

• 6) Analyzes patient data for reimbursement, facility planning, quality of patient care, risk management, utilization management, and research.

• 7) May manage medical records department and be known as Director, Medical Records.