Job Description
When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you’re making a difference in people’s lives.
Medical Transcription 30%, Report distribution 35%, Outside correspondence 15%, Patient registration 10%,Office Management 15%
Job Description:
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
Medical Transcription
Types quickly and accurately- Minimum 60 words per minute.
Demonstrates excellent medical terminology skills Reviews work with pathologists to ensure accuracy.
Specimen Processing
Accessions specimens by verifying patient and specimen identification. Always utilizes two forms of patient identification.
Assigns correct levels for charging purposes.
Basic standard histologic specimen processing is performed which meet or exceed the requirements of the pathologist.
Record and Specimen
Retention Specimens and slides are kept in accordance to the laboratory's Record Retention Policy.
Records and slides are kept in a clean, safe environment and prompt retrieval of records or slides is possible when needed.
Office Management
Works in close collaboration with pathologist, histologists, and department director.
Maintains all patient reports in a neat, retrievable manner. Ensures that reports are distributed to meet client needs. Correspondence Sends out letters of correspondence and specimen slides.
Ensures that replies are received and that final reports are completed for pathologist signature.
Correspondence
Sends out letters of correspondence and specimen slides.
Ensures that replies are received and that final reports are completed for pathologist signature.
Pathology Module Maintenance
Builds and maintains LIS Pathology modules.
Ensure uploading of historical date.
Attending user group sessions.
Participate in all product system upgrades.
Provide capability to rapidly retrieve patient reports.
JOB REQUIREMENTS
Required Skills
Qualifications: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable the individual to perform the essential functions. Communication: Must possess verbal and written skills to communicate effectively and courteously with a diverse group of professional and non-professional members of the health care team, patients and family/significant others.
Minimum Education High school diploma. .
Minimum Work Experience Experience in pathology, medical records, or in doctor’s transcription services
Pay Range:
$21.00 - $28.26The pay range listed for this position is the base hourly wage range the organization reasonably and in good faith expects to pay for this position at this time. Actual compensation is determined based on several factors, that may include seniority, education, training, relevant experience, relevant certifications, geography of work location, job responsibilities, or other applicable factors permissible by law. Compensation may exceed the base hourly rate depending on shift differentials, call pay, premium pay, overtime pay, and other additional pay practices, as applicable to the position and in accordance with the law.
As a health care organization, we have a responsibility to do everything in our power to care for and protect our patients, our colleagues and our communities. Beth Israel Lahey Health requires that all staff be vaccinated against influenza (flu) as a condition of employment.
More than 35,000 people working together. Nurses, doctors, technicians, therapists, researchers, teachers and more, making a difference in patients' lives. Your skill and compassion can make us even stronger.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled
Anna Jaques Hospital is a 123 bed community hospital serving 17 cities and towns in the Merrimack Valley . The hospital offers a wide range of acute care services to meet the needs of our growing patient population including inpatient and outpatient surgery in fully digitized computerized operating room suites, cardiology including echocardiography and a cardiac cath lab, comprehensive cancer services, orthopedics, nuclear medicine, laboratory, noninvasive vascular lab, joint replacement program and birth center.
Programs include the number one wound center in the nation, a primary stroke service, and Level III Trauma Center . Diagnostic imaging services for patients include MRI, CT, PET, and the PACS digital x-ray system. In addition, we are one of only three healthcare communities to be selected for the pilot Massachusetts e-Health Collaborative. Due to the dedication of our physicians, we are one of the first communities in Massachusetts to implement electronic health records, system-wide, for the safety of our patients.
Awards
The hospitals Non Invasive Vascular laboratory was accredited by the Intersocietal Commission for the Accreditation of Vascular Laboratories (ICAVL).
For the second year in a row, the American Association for Respiratory Care awarded the hospital its Quality Respiratory Care Recognition. The hospital had no ventilator acquired pneumonia cases during the last year.
The Wound Healing & Hyperbaric Center is the only such center to receive full accreditation from the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society (UHMS) in Massachusetts .
The hospital is accredited by The Joint Commission, an organization that surveys and rates the performance of hospitals at least every three years. The Joint Commission Dedicated, good employees are one of your strengths. You have a lot to be proud of.