medical records clerk
Medical records clerks organise, keep up-to-date and archive patients` records for medical staff availability. They transfer medical information from a patient’s paper records to an electronic template.
Also called: medical note summariser, health records clerk, patients records assistant, health records staff member, medical records assistant, medical records filing clerk, medical records staff member, clerical officer
- 30
- essential skills
- 16
- optional skills
- 8
- related roles
- 3252
- ISCO-08 group
Where you can go from here
8 rolesOccupations sharing the most essential skills with this one. The number is a count, not an opinion.
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Essential skills
30- adhere to organisational guidelines
- administrative tasks in a medical environment
- apply organisational techniques
- archive healthcare users' records
- clinical coding
- collect healthcare user's general data
- collect statistics on medical records
- comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice
- data storage
- database
- deliver case notes
- display medical problems
- document management
- follow clinical guidelines
- health care legislation
- health care system
- health records management
- identify patients' medical records
- maintain healthcare user data confidentiality
- manage digital archives
- manage healthcare users' data
- medical informatics
- medical terminology
- perform backups
- perform clinical coding procedures
- process data
- professional documentation in health care
- type on electronic devices
- use electronic health records management system
- work in multidisciplinary health teams
Optional skills
16- answer patients' questions
- communicate in foreign languages with health service providers
- communicate in healthcare
- communicate with customers
- customer service
- handle paperwork
- manage digital documents
- medical studies
- participate in medical records' auditing activities
- pharmacology
- review patient's medical data
- send samples to laboratory
- transfer medical information
- use communication techniques
- use databases
- work in a multicultural environment in health care
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