Health Information Manager

Job Purpose

Key Accountabilities

• Identify training needs and develop talent in conjunction with relevant stakeholders.
• Interview and onboard new hires in the HIM department.
• Establish, plan and update required Policies and Procedures relevant to health information management.
• Ensure compliance with industry standards and best practices for management of the electronic medical record system (EMR).
• Monitor information in the EMR for accuracy and completion and facilitate initiatives to improve data input and output quality.
• Collaborate with the Quality team on developing and executing data audits in the EMR.
• Analyze clinical data for research, quality improvement, and report findings accordingly.
• Ensure compliance with relevant accreditation and licensing standards and train direct reports on them.
• Facilitate completion of reports required for external entities.
• Performance manage all members of HIM including medical records, clinical coding, documentation improvement and analysis.
• Establish audit systems consistent with policies to address identified problems and assure accurate and complete documentation.
• Provide education sessions to clinical staff on documentation requirements.

Additional Accountabilities

• Work closely with Finance to ensure a fully integrated, centralized revenue cycle system is developed and operationalized.
• Ensure the revenue capture system is implemented and staff are trained.
• Support the Revenue Cycle team in billing processes by ensuring coding accuracy.
• Report data and trends on a monthly basis and as requested.
• Ensure HIM team's compliance with confidentiality and privacy laws.
• Facilitate medical record improvement initiatives' design and implementation.
• Lead diverse teams to a common purpose and proactively seek new ideas and solutions to improve documentation and data quality.
• Demonstrate ability to make independent decisions when circumstances warrant.
• Develop annual department and staff goals and objectives in line with Naufar's mission, vision, values and strategic plan.
• Oversee productivity and quality monitoring and provide timely and consistent feedback to employees and leadership team.
• Assist Director of Clinical Operations with budget development.
• Lead initiatives to identify opportunities for EMR improvement and compliance.

Leadership and Budget

• Coach, encourage, document and report on staff performance relative to quality of data input and output in the EMR.
• Escalate matters that may impact delivery of quality patient care.
• Manage budget planning for the HIM department in line with organizational needs.

Professional/Academic Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree from a recognized university.
• Current, valid, and active RHIT or RHIA Certification by the American Health Management Information Association and/or equivalent.

Experience

• Minimum of eight years as a Health Information Management professional.
• Minimum of three years of experience in a Managerial Level.