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You.

You bring your body, mind, heart and spirit to your work as a HIM Specialist.

Youâ™re generous with your thoughts, your partnerships and especially your voice, because your opinion matters.

Youâ™re great at what you do, but you want to be part of something even greater. Because you believe that while individuals can be strong, the right team is invincible.

Us.

System Services is our Corporate Headquarters in Broomfield, Colorado and is located within the Oracle campus. SCL Health is a faith-based, nonprofit healthcare organization dedicated to improving the well-being of the people we serve. 

Benefits are one of the ways we encourage health for you and your family. Our generous package includes medical, dental and vision coverage. But health is more than a well-working body: it encompasses body, mind and social well-being. To that end, weâ™ve launched a Healthy Living program to address your holistic health. Healthy Living includes financial incentives, digital tools, tobacco cessation, classes, counseling and paid time off. We also offer financial wellness tools and retirement planning. 

We.

Together weâ™ll align mission and careers, values and workplace. Weâ™ll encourage joy and take pride in our integrity.

Weâ™ll laugh at each otherâ™s jokes (even the bad ones). Weâ™ll hello and high five. Weâ™ll celebrate milestones and acknowledge the value of spirituality in healing.

Weâ™re proud of what we know, which includes how much there is to learn.

Your day.

As a HIM Specialist, you need to know how to:

Performs all tasks related to health information document management, including document pickup, document preparation, scanning and importing of documents, indexing and quality control of documents into the electronic health record. Analyzes health information to determine clinical content and purpose of documents for indexing into the patient medical record according to company policy and SCL Healthâ™s designated record set. This is to ensure health information documentation is available timely for patient care and healthcare operations.

• Responsible for picking up medical record documents from inpatient and outpatient areas, accurately prepping, scanning, importing or uploading, and indexing medical records.  Must possess the ability and skills to review paper and electronic medical records to determine which documents are appropriate for the medical record.


• Ensures medical record documentation is processed into the correct patient medical record, correct encounter, and correct document type by reviewing each page for correct patient identifiers (MRN, HAR, CSN and patient name).


• Reviews document content and assigns a document type for accurate display of documents in the electronic record to meet the needs of physicians and other healthcare providers.


• Ability to identify documentation and medical record form(s) problems and make independent decisions within the scope of oneâ™s job responsibilities.


• Performs quality control to ensure the electronic document/image posts to the correct patientâ™s visit and location, and all pages are accounted for with corresponding images prior to committing the batch to the EHR system.  Adheres to defined quality competencies per policy.  


• Audits scanned documents and electronic information to identify issues, revise documents and correct errors, and escalates any unresolved issues to Data Integrity or manager per procedure.  


• Responsible for the integrity and quality of the documents that are scanned into the document management system, tracking of unidentified documents, re-scanning documents, assigning document types to unknown documents.


• Efficiently works with multiple, complex computer programs and hardware components to provide quality checks for both accuracy of content assignment and image quality.


• Monitors designated queues and determines appropriate action when necessary.


• Prepare documentation for storage and shredding per policy.


• Performs other duties as assigned.

 Legal Medical Record 

• Ensures compliance with applicable regulatory guidelines and requirements including but not limited to The Joint Commission, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), CMS and OCR.


• Serves as a resource to other healthcare workers concerning HIM regulations and requirements.


• Participates in problem solving, be empowered to expedite decisions, analyze and recommend options and follow-up on outstanding issues related to their work.


• Collaborates with HIM management to identify and drive quality and performance improvement initiatives. 


• Establishes a positive and collaborative work environment for staff and others needing HIM assistance.

Your experience.

We hire people, not resumes. But we also expect excellence, which is why we require:

Required:

• High School Diploma or Equivalent


• Two years in a healthcare setting, training or education required or three years previous office experience; intermediate computer skills/experience; good verbal and written communication and customer service skills

Preferred:

• Associateâ™s degree is preferred.


• Three years in a HIM department


• Registered Health Information Technologist (RHIT) or Registered Health Information Administrator (RHIA) preferred 

Your next move.

Now that you know more about being a HIM Specialist on our team we hope youâ™ll join us. At SCL Health youâ™ll reaffirm every day how much you love this work, and why you were called to it in the first place.