Medical Records Assistant job at Infectious Diseases Institute

Infectious Diseases Institute

Medical Records Assistant job Post

Location:  Jobs in Uganda 2023 - 2024

Work Hours: Full-time, 08 hours per day

Salary: UGX

No. of vacancies: 01

Deadline: May 12 2023

Hiring Organization: Infectious Diseases Institute

Job Details:

General Summary
Responsible for collection, validating, entry of data in the respective data bases and maintaining an updated secure filling records system for easy access as well as generating periodic reports.

Key Responsibilities
Generate and share lists for ‘every clinic day expected patients’ before the clinic commences, produce and submit a ‘missed visit’ report on every clinic day by 4pm to the community linkage stakeholders like LRAs in line with MoH data management guidelines.

• Track patients’ files especially ones without clinic exercise books and retrieve any information required by the key stakeholders in line with data management guidelines
• Generate a monthly report for all patient’s clinic attendances, unscheduled, scheduled, new patients in line with MoH data management guide lines
• Receive and register newly referred/ linked patients on every clinic day, assign each a distinctive clinic number, and updating appointments in line with clinic flow guidelines and in line with MoH data management guide lines
• Record post patients’ data from their files into the facility’s electronic data base (Uganda EMR) on a daily basis in line with MoH data management guide lines
• Collect, clean and routinely validate (weekly, monthly, quarterly and annually) data/information in health facility and from community level in line with IDI and MoH data management guide lines
• Provide necessary data tools to all health facility staff and provide technical support in data documentation in line with MoH data management guide lines
• Develop and submit periodic reports to key stakeholders and give timely feedback to the health facility staff in line with IDI and MoH reporting guidelines
• Develop & maintain proper filing, storage and retrieval systems of patients’ medical records in the health facility in line with MoH data management guide lines
• Periodically disseminate the updated health facility ‘Performance Monitoring Plan (PMP)’ and quality improvement indicators to track the performance of health facility in line with MoH data management guide lines
• Any other duties as assigned by the supervisor

Person Specification
• Diploma in Computer Science, Information Management and Data Management
• Prior work experience in a busy HIV/AIDS setting is an added advantage
• 1-2 years of related experience
• Willingness to work and live in rural areas is required

Application procedure

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Date Posted: 2023-05-09

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