Job Description

Hilo Medical Center | Hilo, Hawaii | 100% Full Time Equivalent, With Benefits

Salary: $3,518 per month (includes a $200 per month shortage differential), SR-11, BU:03

At Hilo Medical Center, a nationally-recognized "Top Performing" hospital, the Health Information Technician is a valuable member of our team. This position performs qualitative and quantitative chart analyses to ensure complete physician documentation and indexing, releases medical information to third party carriers, releases information to others as dictated by policy and procedures, reviews all records for completeness and accuracy and performs other duties as assigned.

Benefits:

• 13 paid holidays each year (14 during election years)
• 21 paid vacation days per year
• 21 paid sick days per year
• Medical, dental, vision, and prescription plans

Required Qualifications: To qualify, you must meet all of the following requirements. Please note that unless specifically indicated, the required education and experiences may not be gained concurrently. In addition, qualifying work experience is credited based on a 40-hour workweek.

Education: High school diploma or equivalent.

Medical Records Experience: Two (2) years experience in a health information management department of a hospital or allied medical care facility, or in an allied health or medical program (e.g., nursing unit, admissions dept., clinic, etc.), which included such duties as filing medical records, posting data onto medical records, cross-indexing data, compiling numerical data from medical records or reports, typing/transcribing medical reports, and work of a comparable nature. The experience must have demonstrated knowledge of medical terminology, office practices and procedures pertinent to medical records processing and maintenance, common office appliances and equipment; and the ability to perform arithmetic computations, follow oral and written instructions, operate various kinds of office equipment and deal tactfully and effectively with others.

Substitutions Allowed:

1. Excess Specialized Experience may be substituted for Medical Records Experience.

2. Successful completion of an associate degree in a health information technology program (HIT) accredited by the Commission on Accreditation for Health Informatics and Information management Education (CAHIIM) or recognized by the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA), may be substituted for all of the requirements for two (2) years of medical records experience.

3. Successful completion of an associate degree in a health information technology program (HIT) in a foreign country whose professional association has an agreement of reciprocity with the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) may be substituted for two (2) years of medical records experience.

4. Successful completion of the correspondence course or the AHIMA Independent Study Programs in health information technology (HIT) and an associate\xe2\x80\x99s degree from an accredited college may be substituted for two (2) years of medical records experience.

5. Possession of a current Registered Health Information Technicians (RHIT) certificate received through successful qualification on the national accreditation examination administered by the American Health Information Management Association may be substituted for all of the requirements.

Must be available to work shifts, weekends, and holidays as necessary, based on hospital operations (services are provided 24/7).

MEDICAL EXAMINATION REQUIREMENT: Offers of employment will be contingent on successfully passing a pre-employment examination, which includes drug screen and other regulatory medical requirements such as, but not limited to, a tuberculosis (TB) screen. The cost for drug screening and blood draw for QuantiFERON and Titers, shall be borne by the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation.

PRE-EMPLOYMENT ASSESSMENT: As part of our recruitment process for this position, we require candidates to take a series of pre-employment assessments after they have submitted their applications. Please look for an email confirmation containing instructions for the pre-assessment.

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