Health Information Technologists and Medical Registrars

Apply knowledge of healthcare and information systems to assist in the design, development, and continued modification and analysis of computerized healthcare systems. Abstract, collect, and analyze treatment and followup information of patients. May educate staff and assist in problem solving to promote the implementation of the healthcare information system. May design, develop, test, and implement databases with complete history, diagnosis, treatment, and health status to help monitor diseases.

Conventional occupations frequently involve following set procedures and routines. These occupations can include working with data and details more than with ideas. Usually there is a clear line of authority to follow.

Conventional

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Enterprising occupations frequently involve starting up and carrying out projects. These occupations can involve leading people and making many decisions. Sometimes they require risk taking and often deal with business.

Enterprising

Social occupations frequently involve working with, communicating with, and teaching people. These occupations often involve helping or providing service to others.

Social

Realistic occupations frequently involve work activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions. They often deal with plants, animals, and real-world materials like wood, tools, and machinery. Many of the occupations require working outside, and do not involve a lot of paperwork or working closely with others.

Realistic

Investigative occupations frequently involve working with ideas, and require an extensive amount of thinking. These occupations can involve searching for facts and figuring out problems mentally.

Investigative

Artistic occupations frequently involve working with forms, designs and patterns. They often require self-expression and the work can be done without following a clear set of rules.

Artistic

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Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Workers, All Other

Assign the patient to diagnosis-related groups (DRGs), using appropriate computer software.

Compile medical care and census data for statistical reports on diseases treated, surgery performed, or use of hospital beds.

Design databases to support healthcare applications, ensuring security, performance and reliability.

Develop in-service educational materials.

Evaluate and recommend upgrades or improvements to existing computerized healthcare systems.

Facilitate and promote activities, such as lunches, seminars, or tours, to foster healthcare information privacy or security awareness within the organization.

Identify, compile, abstract, and code patient data, using standard classification systems.

Manage the department or supervise clerical workers, directing or controlling activities of personnel in the medical records department.

Monitor changes in legislation and accreditation standards that affect information security or privacy in the computerized healthcare system.

Plan, develop, maintain, or operate a variety of health record indexes or storage and retrieval systems to collect, classify, store, or analyze information.

Prepare statistical reports, narrative reports, or graphic presentations of information, such as tumor registry data for use by hospital staff, researchers, or other users.

Protect the security of medical records to ensure that confidentiality is maintained.

Resolve or clarify codes or diagnoses with conflicting, missing, or unclear information by consulting with doctors or others or by participating in the coding team's regular meetings.

Retrieve patient medical records for physicians, technicians, or other medical personnel.

Write or maintain archived procedures, procedural codes, or queries for applications.

10-key calculators

Barcode attachment equipment

Barcode scanners

Credit card processing machines

Desktop computers

Dictaphones

Encoders

Flat-top scanners

Label printers

Laser facsimile machines

Laser printers

Light pens

Microfiche viewing machines

Multi-line telephone systems

Notebook computers

Optical readers and writers

Paper shredders

Personal computers

Postal scales

Switchboards

Tablet computers

Touch screen monitors

Typewriters

3M Encoder

Allscripts HER

Billing software

Coding database software

Corel WordPerfect

Cyber Records MediChart Express

Data entry software

Email software

Encoder software

Fox Meadows Accent Data Manager

Graphics software

IBM Lotus 1-2-3

IBM SPSS Statistics

Information Resource Products Clinical Coding Expert

MD Synergy Medical Appointment Scheduling

Microsoft PowerPoint

Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services

Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Word

MicroStrategy

SAP Business Objects

Scantron imaging software

Web browser software

Photocopying equipment

Adobe Systems Adobe AfterEffects

Adobe Systems Adobe Distiller

Adobe Systems Adobe Dreamweaver

Blackbaud eTapestry

Drupal

Google AdWords

Google Analytics

Human resource management software HRMS

Microsoft Project

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