Locum Porter - Medical Records

POSITION: LOCUM PORTER - MEDICAL RECORDS for 6 - 12 months

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Maintains record availability by processing delivery and retrieval using chart mark-off procedures; facilitating chart location activities.

• Retrieves medical records by following chart-out procedures; documenting reasons charts cannot be retrieved for statistical and follow-up purposes.

• Delivers charts to assigned areas of the hospital by following established routing procedures.

• Keeps health care providers informed by communicating availability or unavailability of the record.

• Collection of Emergency Department records as per the schedule.

• Delivery of health records in the approved delivery system while ensuring safety confidentiality and security.

• Sort loose information in the appropriate format and sorter.

• Filing of charts in the appropriate storage /filing areas.

• Interdepartmental shredding as per identified documents.

• Match all loose reports using at least two patient identifiers.

• Secure work area.

• Collection, as per the schedule at pre-defined periods.

• Maintains confidentiality of all data and information at all times.

• Delivery of requested records as per the need and the request.

• Prints pull list and tracer cards of booked clinic appointments and prints clinic add-on list and prepares patient records accordingly.

• Appropriate usage of chart tracking module ensuring that patient record locations are continuously updated.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• High School Diploma preferred.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

• Experience a recommendation (Medical Records / Health Informatics).
• Knowledgeable about medical terminology, security and confidentiality.
• Ability and comprehension in written and spoken English.