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The Healthcare Information Manager leads the unit’s health records department and ensures office procedures as well as rules and regulations governing the collecting and maintenance of healthcare data are followed. This position maintains up to date knowledge on emerging trends in Healthcare Information Management/Healthcare IT specific to medical record management.

• Lead the unit’s healthcare records department; communicate goals, objectives, and initiatives to staff and ensure their compliance to relevant state and federal regulations
• Oversee the department’s documentation processes including planning, organizing, and directing the collection, retrieval, disclosure, storage, and destruction of protected health information (PHI)
• Assign staff duties and responsibilities; develop and implement new unit policies and procedures
• Ensure medical records standards are met; develop, implement, monitor, measure, evaluate, analyze, and adjust department quality initiatives to ensure compliance with quality standards
• Review, test, and make recommendations for the use and purchase of new electronic health record software modules
• Serve as liaison to campus health team on records management issues
• Review and authorize record disclosures and consult with the University's Office of General Counsel on complex attorney, subpoena, law enforcement and power of attorney issues
• May manage and oversee the delivery of specific compliance programs
• Interview, hire, train, and evaluate workforce staff

Level:

– Manager

Base Description:

– Manages direct reports where primary duty is the management of a working unit.

Level Summary:

– Demonstrates proficient ability in work design, project management, financial planning and development of goals for accomplishing unit assignments. Reviews and guides work to ensure conformity to policy and effective approaches. Evaluates employee performance and recommend development opportunities. Demonstrates ability to coach employees. Presents and communicates key university indicatives and connects it to unit contributions. Provides broad guidelines. Develops, evaluates, enhances, and/or implements quality improvement practices. Recommends innovative solutions.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

– Oversees a team (typically 4 or more; no fewer than 2) full
– time direct reports of individual contributors and/or first level supervisors.

Fiscal Responsibilities:

– Monitors and tracks department/area budget
– May plan, forecast, and/or assist in developing budgets
– May have final signature authority for specific area

Problem Solving:

– Encounters varied and complex problems
– Helps to develop creative and/or novel approaches to resolve problems that are difficult in nature but within limited scope
– Modifies, adapts, or refines guidelines if necessary to resolve issues or problems

Independence of Action:

– Works independently on complex or strategic assignments
– Uses existing practices and advanced working knowledge to determine appropriate work methods for the team
– Reviews completed work of others for conformity to policy, and effectiveness of approach
– Delegates advanced tasks to others

Communication and Collaboration:

– Communicates with both internal and external audiences
– Collaborates closely with team members and various areas across the University
– Prepares written and/or verbal presentations or proposals on complex issues and delivers to a broad variety of audiences
– Communicates key university initiatives and how unit’s work contributes to their achievement
– Presents ideas, concepts and instructions in a clear manner, and uses persuasion and negotiation to build consensus and cooperation
– Establishes and maintains networks to facilitate successful communication among units

• Comp Grade – 10
• Minimum – $61,800.00
• MidPoint – $75,700.00
• Maximum – $89,600.00