Jobs for People with MS: National MS Society

Job Description

Location: Oak Park, IL

Hospital: RUSH Oak Park Hospital

Department: Health Information Management

Work Type: Full Time (Total FTE between 0.9 and 1.0)

Shift: Shift 1

Work Schedule: 8 Hr (7:30:00 AM - 4:00:00 PM)

Summary:

Has excellent customer service skills when dealing with patients, physicians, other hospital departments and co-workers. Involved with chart pick-up and prepping for scanning. Exemplifies the Rush mission, vision and values and acts in accordance with Rush policies and procedures.

Other information:

Required Job Qualifications:

• High School or equivalent.

• 3 months to 1 years of relevant work experience.

• Strong customer service skills required for effective interaction with physicians, patients and staff.

Preferred Job Qualifications:

• Knowledge of medical records.

• Alphabetical/numeric filing, general office experience and word processing.

Physical Demands:

• Sit for prolonged periods of time.

• Able to lift at least 50 lbs.

Responsibilities:

• Will answer the phone in a professional and timely manner.

• Will greet patients, physicians and other hospital employees when they arrive in the department.

• Process request for medical records from patients who walk-in into the department. If request is too large, will forward the request to the appropriate person in Release of Information.

• Check the fax machine for request for records and process them. This will be done periodically throughout the day.

• Will retrieve the mail from the mailroom and process accordingly.

• Assist HIM supervisor in retrieving and coping paper charts for various regulatory agencies.

• Maintain a phone log of all incoming phone calls.

• Perform a quality review of scanned documents in EPIC.

• Will notify the supervisor when office supplies need to be reorder.

Is responsible for the upkeep of the workroom.

• Verify patient’s medical record numbers and dates of encounters utilizing the EPIC system.

• Will generate a discharge report from the previous day. Will pick up patient’s discharge charts from all patient floor and ambulatory clinics and bring to the HIM department.

• Responsible for discharge chart preparation for scanning.

• Responsible for scanning, indexing and committing documents.

• Responsible for outpatient and ambulatory chart preparation for scanning.

• Maintains fourth floor inactive record file area. Is responsible for retrieval, refiling, chart tracking and monitoring for misfiled medical records.

• Complete other duties (within scope of classification) as assigned by supervisor.

Rush is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.

Position HIM Scanner

Location US:IL:Oak Park

Req ID 8830