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Job description / Role
Position Summary:
The roles of the clinical documentation specialists are needed to ensure that Hamad Medical Corporation, Qatar addresses the inaccurate documentation and data, which will lead to inappropriate DRG assignments that ultimately reduce payments to the organization.
Principal Accountabilities:
- Facilitating improvement in the overall quality, completeness, and accuracy of medical record documentation by conducting concurrent review of open records.
- Concurrent audits and conducts immediate learning techniques.
- Obtaining appropriate clinical documentation through extensive interaction with physicians, nursing staff, other care team members, and medical records coding staff.
- Educating all members of health care providers on documentation guidelines on an ongoing basis.
- Demonstrating knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the patients served.
- To keep abreast of clinical coding standards, reporting, information policies and statistical trend.
- Feed back to clinical coding data quality group findings and recommendations from clinical coding audits.
- To achieve the corporations targets for standards of accuracy, completeness, and timeliness of clinically coded data.
- Maintain and further enhance the levels of coder / documentation specialist / clinician interaction.
- To demonstrate the continued achievement of high standards of documentation in order to ensure that both clinicians and managers maintain a high level of confidence in the quality of the data.
- To plan and develop an effective documentation audit programme and develop and implement coding strategies, policies and procedures across the Corporation
- To develop and plan a documentation audit programme involving clinician and clinical coders.
- Feed back to clinical coding data quality group findings and recommendations from documentation and clinical coding audits.
- Checks and analyzes medical records for accuracy, adequacy and consistency of documentation
Requirements
We welcome applications from candidates who hold a license to practice in their home country and can meet the following requirements:
- A bachelors degree in Nursing, allied health, medicine, HIM or equivalent. OR Completion of a 4 year diploma in general nursing where that diploma in general nursing is recognized to be the equivalent standard to BSN.
- 3-5 years in medical records/health information (direct practice experience i.e., nursing-counts towards experience) 7+ years in medical records processing in ICD 9/10 coding; preferred training in ICD coding
- Proficient English; Arabic speaking is a plus!
What do we offer you in return?
Just as we are committed to the highest quality of healthcare for our patients, we believe in providing our employees unlimited opportunities in an atmosphere of collaboration and teamwork. We offer our employees a comprehensive benefits program that meets their individual needs and those of their families, including:
- Tax free salary
- Company provided accommodation / Housing allowance
- Subsidized healthcare for you and your family
- Financial educational support for your children
- Relocation support for overseas candidates
- Round-trip annual leave air- ticket to your point of hire
- 30-50 paid annual vacation days (plus approximately 12 days national holidays)
- End of Service benefits on completion of contract
- High quality training & development
- Three year contract
As a place to live for you and your family Qatar is a great choice! Qatar's is known for its very low rates of crime and the almost total absence of civil and political unrest. The safety and family orientation of Qatar makes it one of the most safe and secure countries in the world in which to work, rest and play!
If you meet all of the requirements and would like to work for Qatars leading healthcare provider please apply now.
Our dedicated team of recruiters will review your application and be in touch shortly to discuss your future career with us.
About the Company
Kenexa is in the business of improving companies and enriching lives because to us, business is personal. We improve companies by enriching lives and we enrich lives by improving companies.
With every person we recruit, every assessment we administer, every technology solution we deliver, every survey we conduct, every leader we develop and every compensation strategy we support, lives are impacted by our craft. Very few companies, if any, can claim thisand were proud of that.
We understand that business has two sidesthe performance side and the personal side. The performance side is about driving results. Success and failure are constantly measured, defining metrics. And because business relies on metrics, we rely on measurable outcomes that prove weve helped companies become better.