Health Information Technician - Veterinary Teaching Hospital

Duties & Responsibilities

• Requests, receives, and processes health information (including diagnostic images) within the electronic system, validates and processes release of health information requests of both paper and electronic health system.
• Assembles, files, and reviews health information system and documents for completeness and enters medical record information into the hospital information system, including uploading medical record items (including images) into the hospital information system.
• Updates client, patient, and referring veterinary information within the hospital information system.
• Retrieves and maintains records per established policies. Retrieve records for routine use and special projects as needed. Retrieve and reactivate medical records from microfilm. Purge records as necessary under the guidance of supervisor.
• Performs other related duties as assigned. Provides deficiency reports to clinicians. Answers routine medical record and health information system questions per established policy and procedures.