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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:

– Senior Manager

Base Description:

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

Level Summary:

– Demonstrates advanced skills in critical functions related to unit's success. Demonstrates advanced knowledge of emerging technologies and processes. Monitors completed work of others to ensure effectiveness and adherence to requirements. Sets clear expectations and holds team accountable. Establishes a shared team/unit vision. Demonstrates ability to evaluate and enhance team/unit practices that promote a strong commitment to inclusionary practices. Coaches others using appropriate strategies. Demonstrates diplomacy. Demonstrates ability to serve as liaison between senior-level management and staff. Resolves complex, controversial, or unprecedented issues and problems.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

– Oversees large team or teams of individual contributors and/or supervisors/managers
– Leads a department or functional area

Fiscal Responsibilities:

– Monitors and tracks large budgets
– Plans, forecasts, and/or develops budgets
– May approve budgets for specific area
– Typically has final signature authority for specific area

Problem Solving:

– Encounters highly varied and complex problems that impacts the team and possibly the unit
– Develops creative and/or novel approaches to resolve problems that are difficult in nature
– Independently resolves complex and/or unprecedented issues and problems

Independence of Action:

– Work results are not clearly defined
– Generally sets own goals and determines how to accomplish results with few or no guidelines to follow
– Monitors completed work of others to ensure soundness of approach, effectiveness of meeting requirements, the feasibility of recommendations and adherences to requirements
– Delegates more 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
– Fosters collaboration between units and engages others' coordinated efforts to reach desired outcomes with broad scope

• Comp Grade – 11
• Minimum – $68,200.00
• MidPoint – $85,200.00
• Maximum – $102,300.00