Employment at BHS
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| Title | MULTI-SITE DIRECTOR, HEALTH INFO MANAGEMENT, CORPORATE PRIVACY OFFICER |
| Facility | Berkshire Medical Center |
| Department | Medical Records |
| Primary Duties | Responsible for planning, organizing, directing, and controlling the operation of the BHS Medical Record Departments to ensure efficient and effective medical records services to patients, physicians, health care professionals, administration, hospital departments and a multitude of outside requestors requiring medical and statistical information. The Medical Records Director manages and oversees the development and implementation of the Health Systems Chargemaster. Additional responsibilities as Director include providing consultation, auditing and feedback to BFS Administration, Providers, and Data Entry staff. In addition, the Corporate Privacy Officer (CPO) oversees the development and implementation of corporate-wide privacy principles, policies, and practices. The CPO is responsible for coordinating all corporate activity with privacy implications, as well as monitoring all of the organization's services and systems to assure meaningful privacy practices. The CPO also advocates patient privacy serving as a key privacy advisor for patients, handling disputes and managing patient requests regarding their medical record. The CPO monitors the handling of patient health information in compliance with federal and state laws. |
| Date of Listing | 12/26/2007 |
| Status | Full Time |
| Minimum Qualifications | Medical Record Credential (RHIA) required. Bachelor's degree in Health Information Management required. Ten to 15 years of medical records experience required, 6-8 years experience as a director of a medical records department in an acute care hospital preferred; experience in a teaching hospital and multi-hospital system preferred. Requires a minimum of 5-7 years experience in an integrated healthcare system with 3-5 of those at the management level. An additional 2-3 years of HIPAA Privacy related experience required. Proven effective management expertise, demonstrated ability to develop and maintain effective relationships with patients, physicians, other health care professionals, health care managers, employees, and external agencies. Knowledge and experience with healthcare related computer software, especially casemix, coding, word processing, and incomplete chart tracking programs. Demonstrated understanding of the reimbursement systems prevalent in healthcare. Demonstrated experience and extensive knowledge of chargemaster related issues. Extensive knowledge and experience of the healthcare industry and regulations, especially information privacy laws, access, release of information and release control technologies. Demonstrated written and verbal skills are all required. Demonstrated ability to deal appropriately with confidential information, proven analytical skills to reach appropriate decisions/outcomes. Solid knowledge of Microsoft Office products such as Word and Excel. Strong experience with Microsoft Powerpoint is required for presentation of educational and informational programs. Overall responsibility for approximately 63+ FTEs. |
| Person/Phone Contact | 413-447-2784 |
