// Unit group · 3252

Medical Records and Health Information Technicians

Medical records and health information technicians develop, maintain and implement health records processing, storage and retrieval systems in medical facilities and other health care settings to meet the legal professional, ethical and administrative records-keeping requirements of health services delivery.

3 Technicians and Associate Professionals / 32 Health Associate Professionals / 325 Other Health Associate Professionals / All level 4

// Working conditions

BiologicalLifting and posture

// Hand tools

No hand tools in this set.

planning, developing, maintaining and operating a variety of health record indexes and storage and retrieval systems to collect, classify, store and analyse information

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, epidemiological monitoring, research, billing, cost control and care improvement

reviewing records for completeness, accuracy and compliance with regulations

translating narrative descriptions and numeric information from medical records and other documents on health services delivery into codes associated with standard classification systems

protecting the security of medical records to ensure that confidentiality is maintained and releasing information to authorized persons and agencies in accordance with regulations

supervising clerical and administrative workers involved in the maintenance of medical records.

Included occupations

Examples of the occupations classified here:
- Clinical coder
- Disease registry technician
- Health information clerk
- Medical records analyst
- Medical records clerk
- Medical records technician
- Medical records unit supervisor

Excluded occupations

Some related occupations classified elsewhere:
- Medical secretary - 3344
- Data entry clerk - 4132
- Filing clerk - 4415

Notes

Occupations included in this unit group normally require knowledge of medical terminology, legal aspects of health information, health data standards and computer- or paper-based data management as obtained through formal education and/or on-the-job training.

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