Health Information Document Imaging Technician I at Legacy Health – VANCOUVER, Washington

Legacy Health

Health Information Document Imaging Technician I

Equal Opportunity Employer/Vet/Disabled
US-WA-VANCOUVER

Job ID: 26-46670
Type: Regular Full-Time
Salmon Creek Medical Ctr campus

Overview

At Legacy, our mission is to make life better for our patients, our community, and our staff - and we bring that mission to life in everything we do. If you share this passion and have strong health information management skills, you may be a great fit for this role.

The Health Information Document Imaging Tech I supports their team by accurately preparing, indexing, scanning, and quality-checking medical documentation; retrieving health information data; and properly maintaining scanning equipment. This role plays a key part in ensuring timely, accurate access to health information while delivering excellent service across the organization.

Responsibilities

• Accurately prep documents to be scanned in accordance with established procedures.
Review and audit scanned documents to ensure all pages in the batch were scanned, pages meet quality criteria with rescanning as necessary, pages are indexed to the correct patient/account, document type, and with the correct description.Greet providers, health care professionals and customers and provide complete and accurate information.Respond to incoming, outgoing, and inter-departmental calls and/or requests in a timely and efficient manner.Distribute mail, records, files and reports as appropriate.Respond to requests for records and locate previous medical records as needed.Directs incoming faxes to appropriate department or party as needed.Work within HIPAA, Legacy, and departmental policy guidelines.

Qualifications

Education:

• College course work in health information technology preferred.

Experience:

• A minimum of one year of health care experience or equivalent education in at least one of the following areas:
  • Medical Records/Health Information
  Applicable clerical support experience

Skills:

• Knowledge of HIPAA privacy regulations.
• Knowledge of confidentiality laws, policies and procedures related to specially protected health information.
• Basic grammar and spelling skills.
• Net typing of 40 wpm.
• Proficient keyboarding skills with ability to accurately transfer information from the eye to the keyboard without transposing information.
• Basic use of Windows, Microsoft Word and Excel.
• Demonstrated respectful interpersonal and effective communication skills which promote cooperation and teamwork.
• Ability to work credibly and effectively with medical and administrative staff.
• Ability to withstand various job pressures.
• Attention to detail. Strong organizational skills and ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Work efficiently with minimal supervision, exercising independent judgment within stated guidelines.