Director H.I.M. /Privacy Officer - Berkshire Health Systems

• DEFINITION/PRIMARY FUNCTIONS
  • The Berkshire Health Systems Medical Record Director is 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 Record Director manages and oversees the development and implementation of the Health Systems Charge master. 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.
• POSITION QUALIFICATIONS (Minimum qualifications are required unless stated otherwise.)
  • Experience:
    • 10 years of medical records experience required, 6 years experience as a director of a medical record department in an acute care hospital preferred
    • Experience in a teaching hospital and multi-hospital sytem preferred.
    • Requires a minimum of 5 years experience in an integrated healthcare system with 3 of those at the management level.
    • An additional 2 years of HIPAA Privacy related experience required.
  • Education and Training:
    • Bachelor's degree in Health Information Management required.
  • License, Certification & Registration:
    • RHIA/RHIT- Registered Health Information Admin or Technician.
  • Other Requirements:
    • 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 across all BHS medical record departments.

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