State of Louisiana
Department of Civil Service

10/29/07

157970
Last Effective Date 03/01/04

HEALTH INFORMATION PROCESSOR 1

FUNCTION OF WORK:
To perform activities related to the storage and retrieval of primary and secondary health care records.

LEVEL OF WORK:
Entry.

SUPERVISION RECEIVED:
Close from a Health Information Processor Supervisor or higher level health information staff member.

SUPERVISION EXERCISED:
None.

LOCATION OF WORK:
Department of Health and Hospitals, Louisiana Health Care Authority/Acute Care Hospitals; Louisiana State University Medical Centers; Department of Veteran's Affairs and Department of Corrections.

JOB DISTINCTIONS:
Differs from a Health Information Processor 2 by the performance of entry level tasks.

EXAMPLES OF WORK:

EXAMPLES LISTED BELOW INCLUDE BRIEF SAMPLES OF COMMON DUTIES ASSOCIATED WITH THIS JOB TITLE. PLEASE NOTE THAT NOT ALL TASKS ARE INCLUDED.

Reviews, classifies and maintains health care records by updating patient files, filing, compiling statistics and identifying and correcting record errors on reports.

Maintains case abstracts in computerized records system and enters changes in patient file data.

Retrieves patient records upon request and maintains sign-out file for records removed from department.

Input data into computerized health information system.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
One year of experience in which clerical work was a major duty.

SUBSTITUTIONS:
Training in a business, office machines, secretarial science or closely related curriculum in a business school or technical institute will substitute for the required experience on the basis of one month of full-time training for one month of experience.

Completion of a Secretary or Executive Assistant program of at least twelve months duration approved by the Department of Civil Service from a business school or technical institute will substitute for all of the required experience. For less than completion of the program, credit will be allowed under the first paragraph for substitutions. All training must have been resident study.

College training will substitute for the required experience on the basis of thirty semester hours for one year of experience.

Registration with the American Health Information Management Association (formerly the American Medical Records Association) as a Registered Health Information Technician (RHIT) (formerly ART), a Certified Coding Specialist (CCS), or a Registered Health Information Administrator (RHIA) (formerly RRA) may substitute for one year of the required experience.

NOTE:

Individual positions may require typing. Persons applying for those positions may be required by the hiring agency to take a typing test or otherwise demonstrate their typing skills.

NOTE:

Any college hours or degree must be from a school accredited by one of the following regional accrediting bodies: the Middle States Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools; the New England Association of Schools and Colleges, Incorporated; the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools; the Northwest Association of Secondary and Higher Schools; the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools; the Western Association of Schools and Colleges.