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Changing health care
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Beth Israel Lahey Health’s roots in providing top-quality health care date back nearly a century. We're fully committed to ensuring our patients receive the care they deserve. As a leading healthcare provider throughout New England, we aim to change the current state of health care for the better and make lasting improvements that guarantee access to our services.

HIM Data Integrity Specialist II

Charlestown, Massachusetts

Organization Facility: Beth Israel Lahey Health - Non Executive Category: HIM Operations Job ID: JR48237 Date posted: 07/23/2024
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Job Type: Regular

Time Type: Full time

Work Shift: Day (United States of America)

FLSA Status: Non-Exempt

When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you’re making a difference in people’s lives.

This is an onsite opportunity in Dedham MA

The HIM (Health Information Management) Data Integrity Specialist is responsible for maintaining the correctness of documentation and integrity within the electronic health record.

--This position requires critical thinking to support the integrity of the hospital's current electronic health record systems.

--Responsible for merging and chart corrections as well as investigating Electronic medical record for any duplications or inaccuracies of the files.

--This position works with all levels of the organization including nurses, physicians, and ancillary staff. Accurate patient care depends on accurate documentation.

Job Description:

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Essential Duties & Responsibilities :

Confidentiality of patient information


1.    Provides data integrity to identify, investigate, resolve and prevent duplicate medical record numbers and patient overlays, both intra-facility and inter-facility with a focus on merging/unmerging medical records

2.    Responsible for ensuring all necessary corrections are made within established quality and productivity standards, validate each case prior to closure, and provide reports to manager on request

3.    Coordinates with BILH entities as necessary to ensure manual merge of paper documentation and merge of downstream systems as appropriate

4.    Responds in a timely manner to emergent notification regarding MPI errors during scheduled hour

5.    Concurrently monitors origination points of duplicate number assignments and provides timely feedback to registration areas and manager

Minimum Qualifications:
Education:
•    High School diploma or equivalent 
•    Associate degree or higher preferred in related field


Experience:
•    Experience working in Health Information Management (HIM) preferred
•    Previous office experience and computer skills
•    Epic experience desired


Skills, Knowledge & Abilities:
•    Medical terminology
•    Knowledge of medical records content and management
•    Working knowledge of the EMR including experience working with structured data and database management
•    Strong Confidentiality for patient information is required

As a health care organization, we have a responsibility to do everything in our power to care for and protect our patients, our colleagues and our communities. Beth Israel Lahey Health requires that all staff be vaccinated against influenza (flu) and COVID-19 as a condition of employment. Learn more about this requirement.

More than 35,000 people working together. Nurses, doctors, technicians, therapists, researchers, teachers and more, making a difference in patients' lives. Your skill and compassion can make us even stronger.

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If you’re looking for a career where you can make a difference and explore your potential, Beth Israel Lahey Health is the place you belong. Our system includes a network of hospitals, physician practices, outpatient centers, and other healthcare facilities and we offer a broad range of careers in direct patient care, environmental services, registration, finance and many other fields. We are focused on providing compassionate and personalized healthcare with a strong reputation for clinical excellence and research and offer diverse opportunities for career growth and development. Conveniently, we have many locations in communities across Eastern Massachusetts and Southern New Hampshire.

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