Health Info Mgmt Svc Director
Required skills
- Health Information Management
- HIM
- Director
- staff supervision
- policies
- procedures
- accrediting agencies
- regulatory agencies
- legal aspects
- medical records
Role summary
The Health Information Management Service Director oversees the HIM department, including staff supervision, policy formulation, and procedure maintenance. This role ensures compliance with accrediting and regulatory agencies, manages legal aspects of medical records, and maintains confidentiality and privacy. The Director establishes systems for clinical information control (collection, maintenance, retrieval, retention) and participates in relevant committees. A key focus is supporting cultural diversity by ensuring equitable, culturally competent, patient-centered care and fostering an inclusive work environment.
The Health Information Management Service Director is responsible for the overall management of the functions and staff supervision in the HIM department. The position formulates departmental policies and procedures and maintains the indexes and registers required by accrediting and regulatory agencies. In addition, the position ensures that legal aspects of medical records practices, release of information, and hospital responsibility for confidentiality and privacy are being met. The Director establishes and maintains systems to control the collection, maintenance, retrieval and retention of clinical information and participate on committees and task forces which have medical records or clinical information management objectives. This position will support cultural diversity by ensuring that the delivery of quality, equitable and culturally competent patient-centered care is provided; promoting and maintaining an inclusive work environment and culture that is respectful and accepting of diversity; and ensuring that cultural diversity and sensitivity training is part of new employee orientation on an on-going basis to meet the needs of the patient population served in the hospital.
Job Code: 100154
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