Medical Records Analyst

If you imagine medical data as a pack of wild dust bunnies cluttering a Doctor ’s office, and yourself as the hero swooping in to sweep them up and put them in their place, then you’ve got a good mental picture of a day in the life of a Medical Records Analyst. Though it doesn’t involve physical cleaning, you do spend your time as a Medical Records Analyst organizing and updating patients’ charts and other key medical forms that the company can’t afford to misplace. Without your work, the office would cease to function.

To keep your growing stacks of paper under control as a Medical Records Analyst, you start by developing an organizational system. Let your creative juices flow and determine whether the office needs a four-drawer filing cabinet or an entire computer system to tame its paper beasts.

Once you’ve chosen your weapon of mass organization, you start sorting info, and filing or typing it into your new system. Outdated info may go into the archives, while current info goes into the updated files where Doctors can easily access it.

When patients come in, you create a new chart for them or update the information on their existing records. Appointment reminders are useless if they’re mailed to an outdated address, and insurance coverage becomes a hassle if the patient’s policy isn’t kept up to date.

At the end of the day, the office is running like a well-oiled machine thanks to your organizational skills and multitasking capabilities. “A place for everything and everything in its place” is your motto.