Health Information Technician
- Illinois Department of Human Services
- 1200 S 1st Avenue, Hines IL
- Dec 12, 2024
Job Description
Location: Hines, IL, US, 60141
Job Requisition ID: 43545
Agency: Department of Human Services
Class Title: HEALTH INFORMATION TECHNICIAN - 18047
Skill Option: None
Bilingual Option: None
Opening Date: 12/11/2024
Closing Date/Time: 12/24/2024
Salary: Anticipated Salary: $4,412 - $5,991 per month ($52,944 - $71,892 per year)
Job Type: Salaried
Category: Full Time
County: Cook
Number of Vacancies: 1
Plan/BU: RC028
Position Overview
The Division of Developmental Disabilities is seeking to hire a Health Information Technician for the Madden Mental Health Center located in Hines, Illinois to prepare and code all clinical records including medical and psychiatric diagnoses. Interprets and evaluates technical and complex clinical records and conducts clinical chart audits. Serves on various facility-wide committees. Serves as facility representative when testifying in court ordered hearings on health information records. Coordinates release of information activities.
Essential Functions
- As an accredited health information management technician, prepares and codes all clinical records including medical and psychiatric diagnoses.
- Interprets and evaluates technical and complex clinical records and conducts clinical chart audits.
- Serves on various facility-wide oversight committees concerning Health Information.
- Reviews petitions, certificates and related documents pertaining to civil commitment.
- Utilizes a personal computer, software, hardware, and agency mainframe applications to produce special reports, charts, forms, and graphs for summaries and displays of health information records.
- Coordinates release of information activities, including review of court orders and subpoenas, approval of authorizations from outside agencies, retrieval of records and identification of requested documents.
- Maintains list of charts that have not been coded and entered into the system.
- Attends and actively participates in all mandatory training.
- Performs other duties as required or assigned which are reasonably within the scope of the duties enumerated above.
Minimum Qualifications
- Requires knowledge, skill, and mental development equivalent to two (2) years of college.
- Requires one (1) year of experience in health information records procedures.
- Requires accreditation as a Registered Health Information Technician (RHIT) or Registered Health Information Administrator (RHIA).
Conditions of Employment
- Requires basic proficiency utilizing personal computers, hardware, and software applications.
- Requires ability to pass the IDHS background check.
- Requires ability to pass a drug screen for drugs prohibited from recreational use under Illinois Law.
*All conditions of employment listed are incorporated and related to any of the job duties as listed in the job description.
Work Hours: 7:30am - 3:30pm, Monday-Friday, 30-minute unpaid lunch
Work Location: 1200 S 1st Ave, Hines, Illinois, 60141
Division of Mental Health
Madden Mental Health Center
Medical Records
Agency Contact: DHS.HiringUnit@Illinois.gov
Posting Group: Health Services; Social Services
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The Department of Human Services is one of Illinois' largest agencies, with more than 13,000 employees. Illinois created IDHS in 1997, to provide our state's residents with streamlined access to integrated services, especially those who are striving to move from welfare to work and economic independence, and others who face multiple challenges to self-sufficiency. IDHS is proud of its diversity, efficiency, and the services that the agency and its community partners provide to Illinois citizens.