Health Information Manager Vacancy at Me Cure Healthcare Limited
Me Cure Healthcare Limited was established in 2009 and is headquartered
in Nigeria with 7 healthcare diagnostic centers in Nigeria including an
eye center which is a state of the art ophthalmic clinic used to
diagnose, treat and perform vision related surgeries.
At Me Cure, we have only highly trained medical professionals and
technicians using the best cutting edge tools and technology to provide
the best service to the Nigerian People.
Me Cure Healthcare Limited is recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Health Information Manager
Location: Lagos
Job Purpose
- The health information manager will be responsible for managing all medical records with Me Cure Eye Center.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Disseminate information and educate appropriate hospital staff
about the hospital’s policies, procedures and expectations regarding
medical records.
- Code all clients’ diagnoses and medical records, for the client information system, for research, and for statistical purposes.
- Providing support for the integrity of the information. This
includes the verification of the daily census with each client unit,
checking to see that all information on each admission is entered, and
compiling reports of analyses to the local, state and Federal government
for performance improvement.
- Prepare and maintain admission charts for new admissions.
- Maintains medical record files in order of final filing, keeping files current.
- Planning information system, develop health policy, and
identifying current and future information needs. Supporting
information-intensive and information relevant health care system.
- Managing and constructing health information programs to
guarantee they accommodate all legal, medical and ethical standards.
Maintaining, collecting and analyzing data received by Doctors, nurses
and other healthcare providers. Making sure patients information are
accurate and available when needed.
- Store, safeguard and provide access to the medical record of active and discharged clients in accordance with applicable laws.
- Supervising the process of assembling patient’s medical
information including medical history, symptoms examination results,
diagnostic test, treatment methods, and all other healthcare provider
services.
- Retention and disposition of policies and practices.
- Audit of clinical record used in patient care and regulatory/legal cases.
- Member to the QIC committee, Training of office assistance and
other staffs attached to Me Cure Eye centre on the use of the EMR.
- Monitor physician availability, orders, forms, reports signed and dated.
- Maintain medical records computer system hardware and software.
- Conducting reviews /audits of the hospital’s medical records of
all discharged clients, reviews of random samples of active clients, and
special focused audits as requested. The purpose of the review is to
identify opportunities for improvement in compliance with established
medical record procedures and standards.
- Process documents to provide relevant client demographic and
medical information to the designated aftercare agencies to facilitate
follow-up and continuity of care upon a client’s discharge from the
hospital.
- Training of other Health Information Management department staff on policy and procedures and the use of any current software.
- Comply with applicable laws, rules, policies, procedures and
standards governing the confidentiality, security and integrity of the
medical record and promote compliance hospital wide.
- Ensure that personal health information are only available to authorized persons and used only for authorized purposes.
- Maintain a manual of approved medical record policies,
procedures, abbreviations and forms that govern the content,
documentation and formats for the medical records of the hospital’s
active and discharged clients.
Educational Qualifications
- Minimum of Higher National Diploma (HND) in Health Information Management
- Knowledge of clinical coding, patient information review and electronic medical records
Professional Certifications and Licenses:
- Candidate must be registered with the Health Records Officers Registration Board of Nigeria
- Must be a registered member of the Health Information Managers Association of Nigeria (HIMAN)
Work Experience:
- Minimum of two (2) years professional experience as a health information manager one of which should be as a supervisor.
- Must have experience in the health industry or hospital setting
Skills and Competencies:
- Must be a computer literate with knowledge of MS Office package
- Able to utilize electronic medical software, ICD 9, ICD 10 proficiently
- Knowledge of hospital statistics.
- Must possess skills in numeracy
Working Conditions
- Work requires standing and/or walking for extended periods of time.
- Employees in this position will be required to adhere to work availability and unit scheduling requirements.
- Work may require contact with aggressive and/or combative patients.
- Work requires manual dexterity and hand-eye coordination to perform patient care procedures.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their application and CV's to:
[email protected]
Note: Only qualified applicants will be considered
Application Deadline 27th January, 2017.