Healthcare and Allied Health

EHR Specialist's duties will vary with size and specialty of the facility in which they may work. Many can specialize in varying areas or one aspect of the EHR such as entry level coders, encoding within a hospital setting, abstractors and or coding specialist, HIPAA Compliance Officers or HIM (Health Information Managers) and be over entire departments within larger healthcare facilities. The duties an electronic health record specialist may perform include but not necessarily be limited to: Assemble patient's health information to ensure information is complete and accurate; Enter data, such as demographic characteristics, history and extent of disease, diagnostic procedures and treatment into computer; Statistical and Data Analysis for Quality Improvement Measures; Manage data backup, retention of records, Work National Database Registries. Books Included.. Click here for the full description of Electronic Health Records Specialist