Medical Records Clerk

SUMMARY:

As a Radiology Medical Records Clerk, your responsibilities will include collecting, organizing, and accurately storing patient data, ensuring all medical release items are accurate and processed in a timely manner, delivering results to the appropriate physician's office and resolving any delivery errors, processing timely delivery of image requests and reports electronically, scanning all necessary paperwork into the medical record, uploading outside images into our Radiology Information System (RIS) and Picture Archiving Communication System (PACS), taking patient and referring physician calls and processing them appropriately, and managing all incoming medical records received via the electronic fax queue. 

Compliance: Ensuring all records meet HIPAA standards and other relevant regulations.

This is not a remote position. It will be at our Maryland Parkway Clinic. 8 Hour shift between 7-5pm Monday - Friday. 

MINIMUM SKILLS, ABILITY AND REQUIREMENTS:

• Must be a High school graduate or equivalent. Previous medical experience preferred.
• Must be proficient with computers. 
• Must possess strong customer service skills. 

• Read and write English.
• Any employee who discovers, is directly involved in or is responding to an event/occurrence/risk is required to complete or direct the completion of an occurrence report within 24 hours of event/occurrence/risk.
• My job performance, including current competencies will be reviewed by my supervisor on a periodic basis. If my job performance/ current competencies are not (or continue to not be) at required level this could result in additional training and/or disciplinary action.
• Staff members may be monitored at any time during business calls without notification. SDMI management may listen in on conversations for training, monitoring and other legitimate business purposes.
• Skill in organizing time to accommodate changes in workload and assignments in order to complete tasks in a timely manner.
• Skill to pay attention to details and accuracy in completing tasks.
• Responds positively to changes in assignments and priorities.
• Works as an effective team member with co-workers and other personnel.
• Able to identify hazardous material in immediate work area.
• Knows and follows all SDMI safety and evacuation guidelines, policies and procedures.
• Willingly participates in cross-training activities within the department in for own professional growth in order to contribute to the overall function of SDMI.
• Assumes responsibility for updating knowledge of current SDMI department policies and procedures, protocol and practices.
• Demonstrates punctuality by reporting to work on time/satisfactory attendance record that complies with SDMI attendance policy.
• Takes full responsibility for all functions within job description and assures that all functions are completed before leaving SDMI at the end of the shift.
• Communicates effectively when follow up is needed.
• Other duties as assigned.

All Employees agree to comply with all privacy and security standards as set out by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) as outlined by my employer. I will make every effort to protect our patient’s health information and confidentiality as well as abide by all aspect of Public Law 104-191. I will treat all information received in the course of my employment with SDMI, which relates to the patients of the provider, as confidential and privileged information and will not disclose information regarding SDMI’s patients to any person or entity, other than as necessary to perform my job, and as permitted under SDMI’s HIPAA policies. I will safeguard my computer password and will not post it in a public place, such as the computer monitor or a place where it will be easily lost, such as on my nametag. (initials _____)

THE ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF THE POSITION REFLECT THE MAJOR DUTIES CONSIDERED NECESSARY TO DESCRIBE PRINCIPAL FUNCTIONS OF THE POSTION AND SHALL NOT BE CONSTRUED AS A DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF ALL OF THE WORK REQUIREMENTS THAT MAY BE INHERET IN THE POSITION.