My Career Of Health Service Delivery - 1141 Words

My career in health service delivery began in 1994. I attended Central Texas College where I completed a two-year certificate program in Health Information. After graduation, I worked for a small psychiatric practice as a transcriptionist. In this role I covered the front desk and completed the daily transcribed reports. I only remained in this position for a brief period and worked outside of healthcare, as jobs were scarce. After returning to Seattle, in 1996, I resumed working in healthcare. I was hired by Good Samaritan Mental Health Services as a receptionist performing basic medical office and records functions. After a year, with Good Samaritan, I resigned and accepted a temporary position with St Joseph Medical Center. My†¦show more content†¦At Swedish I held three positions. The first two were in the medical records department. As a Medical Records Clerk processing and prepared medical records, as well as , archiving, filing and retrieving charts. I quickly advanced to a newly created position, Master Patient Index (MPI)/Study Coordinator. My primary responsibilities entailed performing analysis and evaluation of potential records for duplication, demographic changes and updating newborn records. Once duplication was identified, I corrected the record and performed the required merges in the database. Study Coordinator, was my secondary responsibility. I assisted researchers in obtaining the records needed to perform their various studies and I ensured that charts were organized and the research area was properly maintained. In addition, I reviewed the researchers’ compliance documentation to ensure that they met the Institutional Review Board’s recommendation. My duties also included delegating nightly duties to the Assistant Study Coordinator. I ensured that assignments were completed when I arrived each morning. The last position, at Swedish, was Business Services Coordinator for the Kidney Transplant program. M y primary responsibly was to set up the new medical records file room and to maintain the records, after the clinic joined with the multiple ambulatory service providers. I also assisted with creating a protocol for how records would be requested and retrieved, in addition to