Medical Records Technician (Office Automation)

<p>About the Position: This position falls under Defense Health Agency, Naval Health Branch Clinic Norfolk, functioning as a Medical Record Retirement Technician, maintaining and researching medical records and medical record archive system ensuring records are archived and retired, answering patient inquires, and utilizing electronic health record systems from 7:00 A.M. to 3:30 P.M. Monday-Friday. This is a Direct Hire Solicitation</p><h3>Major Duties</h3><p>Review and screen incoming inpatient, outpatient and ambulatory procedure visit records for compliance with established criteria.</p><p>Review records and files, assembling loose reports, and properly verify each jacket for patient identification making additions/corrections as necessary.</p><p>Verify selected inpatient and ambulatory procedure visit records with computer generated patient indexes to ensure a record is present.</p><p>Research and retrieve inpatient and ambulatory procedure records from the archive system.</p><p>Separate records into distinct shipments by patient category depending upon designated retention periods in accordance with guidelines, ensuring proper sequencing in terminal digit order.</p><p>Prepare and label boxes and packs records accordingly.</p><p>Utilize Patient Record Tracking (PRT) system to generate record retirement index.</p><p>Check out records in the Medical Tracking Module and track the location of the record.</p><p>Subject Matter Expert (SME) on proper retirement and retrieval of records at a medical treatment facility.</p><p>Training personnel at other clinics, coordinating shipments, and managing communication between multiple departments and agencies.</p><p>Assist members checking in and out of the command daily.</p><h3>Education</h3>FOREIGN EDUCATION: If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university. For further information, visit: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/.