Job Role Description

Medical > Electronic Medical Records Coordinator

Salary National Average

Low Medium High
37310.0000 45210.0000 56160.0000

Change from Previous Year:

+5%

Supply and Demand

Candidate Supply: 1,035 Job Openings: 9,546

0 50 100

More Difficult Less Difficult

Salary Variance

Enter City, State to view local salaries and candidate demand.

Short Description:

Compile, process, and maintain medical records of hospital and clinic patients consistent with the health care system's medical, administrative, ethical, legal, and regulatory requirements. In addition, process, maintain, compile, and report patient information for health requirements and standards in a manner consistent with the healthcare industry's numerical coding system.

Duties / Responsibilities:

  • Protect the security of medical records to ensure that confidentiality is maintained.
  • Review records for completeness, accuracy, and compliance with regulations.
  • Retrieve patient medical records for physicians, technicians, or other medical personnel.
  • Release information to persons or agencies according to regulations.
  • Plans, develops, maintains, or operates a variety of health record indexes or storage and retrieval systems to collect, classify, store, or analyze information.
  • Enter data, such as demographic characteristics, history and extent of disease, diagnostic procedures, or treatment.
  • Compile and maintain patients' medical records to document conditions and treatment and provide data for research, cost control, and care improvement efforts.
  • Process and prepare business or government forms.
  • Process patient admission or discharge documents.
  • Assign the patient to diagnosis-related groups (DRGs) using appropriate computer software.

Skills / Requirements / Qualifications

  • Active Listening: Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
  • Reading Comprehension: Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work-related documents.
  • Speaking: Talking to others to convey information effectively.
  • Critical Thinking: Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems.
  • Monitoring: Monitoring/assessing the performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
  • Time Management: Managing one's own time and the time of others.

Job Zones

  • Education: These occupations usually require a high school diploma.
  • Related Experience: Some previous work-related skills, knowledge, or experience is usually needed. For example, a teller would benefit from experience working directly with the public.
  • Job Training: Employees in these occupations need anywhere from a few months to one year of working with experienced employees. A recognized apprenticeship program may be associated with these occupations.
  • Job Zone Examples: These occupations often involve using your knowledge and skills to help others. Examples include sheet metal workers, forest fire fighters, customer service representatives, physical therapist aides, salespersons (retail), and tellers.
  • Specific Vocational Preparation in years: 3 months to 1 year of preparation (4.0 to < 6.0)

Share Role Details

Return to job listings