HIM Technician 1 ALG

HIM Technician 1 ALG

Collect, maintain and make available to customers and authorized users, timely, accurate and complete paper and / or electronic patient health information following HIPAA regulations. Attends HIPAA trainings and takes other measure to remain current in information management related regulations; educates Health Information Management (HIM) and other hospital staff in HIPAA regulations.

Responsibilities :

• Handles patient requests for PHI following HIPAA / HITECH rules; coordinates patient access to PHI; enters patient care areas to respond to patient requests for PHI. Ensures releases are HIPAA compliant prior to processing.
• Keeps abreast of HIPAA / HITECH regulations; participates in educating HIM and other departments staff informally and with formal sessions every three months or as changes occur; assists with developing department guidelines for HIPAA releases.
• Attends HIPAA training seminars / webinars.
• Prepares invoices for record copies, enters payments, justifies balances due.
• Collects, maintains and makes available to authorized users timely, accurate and complete patient health information (PHI).
• Responds to customers entering office in a timely manner; answers telephone calls in a prompt and courteous manner.
• Prepares PHI for scanning following scanning procedure; transfers PHI from paper to electronic format by scanning records and indexing into EHR.
• Assigns deficiencies to physicians; generates physician notification letters; assists physicians with record completion; follows up on deficient and / or delinquent PHI to assure compliance with hospital policy and regulatory agencies.
• Reviews paper / hybrid / electronic PHI for completeness and files in designated areas according to applicable numeric and date filing system.
• Assembles, locates, pulls, electronically tracks and sees to the appropriate transport of PHI as requested by other departments.
• Operates computer to enter and retrieve data, type correspondence and reports.
• Retrieves all records of discharged patients from all units on a daily basis; checks against daily log to ensure receipt of all records; follow up on missing records.
• Generates physician notification letters; assists physicians with record completion.
• Periodically audits electronic PHI.
• Orders supplies for the department.
• Attends and partipates in monthly department meetings.
• Attends mandatory hospital and department inservices.

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