Medical Records Clerk

Clerical Role In Laboratory Operations

Join a team where your work matters every moment, every patient, every community. At SSM Health, you'll be empowered to grow, supported to thrive, and inspired to make a lasting impact.

This is a role focused on the clerical aspect of Laboratory operations. Understanding of medical terminology and prior laboratory experience are preferred but not required.

Department: Laboratory - Surgical Pathology Schedule: Monday - Friday 8:00 am - 4:30 pm

Job Summary:

Performs a variety of tasks to support the pathologists, surgical pathology and cytology departments, ensuring accuracy and attention to detail.

Job Responsibilities and Requirements:

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Documents patient demographics, orders, reports, billing records, and other necessary information into the electronic medical record.
• Assists with requests in the preparation of diagnostic material for reference lab testing, research studies and tumor board (e.g., processing orders, requesting materials, and packaging diagnostic material and documentation).
• Answers and triages phone calls, relays messages, and fulfills requested tasks prompted by these encounters.
• Contacts outside providers to communicate additional test recommendations based on the pathologists findings.
• Scans paper requisitions, second opinion pathology reports, and unsolicited pathology reports into the electronic medical record. Initiates amended reports as needed.
• Interprets and converts dictation by health care professionals into printed text. Recognizes, interprets, and evaluates inconsistencies, discrepancies and inaccuracies in medical dictation and appropriately edits, revises, and/or clarifies without altering meaning of dictation or changing dictator's style.
• Utilizes computerized dictation and transcription software and electronic health record software.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

EDUCATION

• High School diploma/GED or 10 years of work experience

EXPERIENCE

• No experience required

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

• Frequent lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 0-25 lbs.
• Frequent sitting, standing, walking, reaching and repetitive foot/leg and hand/arm movements.
• Frequent use of vision and depth perception for distances near (20 inches or less) and far (20 feet or more) and to identify and distinguish colors.
• Frequent use of hearing and speech to share information through oral communication. Ability to hear alarms, malfunctioning machinery, etc.
• Frequent keyboard use/data entry.
• Occasional bending, stooping, kneeling, squatting, twisting and gripping.
• Occasional lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 25-50 lbs.
• Rare climbing.

REQUIRED PROFESSIONAL LICENSE AND/OR CERTIFICATIONS

• None

SSM Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. SSM Health provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.