Occupation Atlasmedical records manager
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/983c2816-a339-4817-97f4-151a9ff3e64d
medical records manager
Medical records managers are responsible for managing activities of medical records units which maintain and secure patient data. They supervise, oversee and train employees while implementing medical department policies.
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Job Zone
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- 3
- 4
- 5
Zone 4: Considerable Preparation Needed
Considerable preparation. Usually a bachelor's degree plus several years of work-related experience, knowledge, or training.
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Occupational interest profile
CIEConventional · Investigative · Enterprising — the three strongest interests, in order
- C Conventional6.58
- I Investigative5.66
- E Enterprising3.30
- S Social2.82
- A Artistic1.27
- R Realistic1.25
RIASEC (Holland) interests on O*NET's 0–7 scale: what the work draws on, not what any individual prefers. Hover a row for what each dimension means.
Job Zone and interest data are borrowed from Clinical Data Managers (15-2051.02): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, its close O*NET match, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.
Typically associated skills
Essential (30)
ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to this occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role.
- apply organisational techniques
- archive healthcare users' records
- clinical coding
- collect statistics on medical records
- communicate in healthcare
- comply with legislation related to health care
- data storage
- database
- document management
- follow clinical guidelines
- health care legislation
- health records management
- healthcare administration
- identify patients' medical records
- manage digital archives
- manage healthcare staff
- manage healthcare users' data
- manage information in health care
- medical informatics
- oversee record management
- participate in medical records' auditing activities
- perform clinical coding procedures
- professional documentation in health care
- recruit employees
- supervise staff
- undertake clinical audit
- use e-health and mobile health technologies
- use electronic health records management system
- work in a multicultural environment in health care
- work in multidisciplinary health teams
Optional (28)
- advise on medical records
- answer patients' questions
- bookkeeping regulations
- collect healthcare user's general data
- customer service
- evaluate employees
- formulate a treatment plan
- health care system
- human anatomy
- human physiology
- interview people
- maintain healthcare user data confidentiality
- maintain treatment records
- manage budgets
- manage workflow processes
- medical terminology
- meet the requirements of social security reimbursement bodies
- monitor regulations in social services
- patient record storage
- perform backups
- perform records management
- process data
- record healthcare users' billing information
- record treated patient's information
- review patient's medical data
- risk management
- supervise daily information operations
- transfer medical information
O*NET equivalents
From the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, strongest match first. A broader occupation takes in this one; a narrower one is a part of it.
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