If you're one of the record number of jobless Illinoisans, a new career could be waiting for you. Soon, the medical industry will need 75,000 people to help transition to electronic record keeping. CBS 2's Dorothy Tucker says the time to start training is now. At Mercy Hospital, you'll find the medical records department on the second floor. Staffers there are responsible for analyzing each file to make sure the records of thousands of patients are complete and accurate. Until recently, the staff of 28 was a sufficient number to handle the job, but six months ago Mercy put its records online. Susan Oh is the director of Mercy's medical records. She says the transition to electronic medical records has increased the hospital's need for more people with computer skills and healthcare knowledge, people who know "how different systems interface and can work together."Mercy is among the many health care facilities in the country making the switch to electronic records. It's all part of the industry's goal to computerize all healthcare records by 2014 to make it easier for doctors to share information. That's good news for job seekers. "With the initiative of electronic health records, we expect that there will be new types of jobs," Claire Dixon-Lee of the American Health Information Management Association said. The association estimates there are 75,000 people working in medical records and another 75,000 will be needed to get everyone online – and not just hospitals and doctor's offices. Also making the transition will be dental offices, rehab facilities and long-term care facilities, Dixon-Lee said. "There's tremendous growth," she said. How much training does someone need to be prepared to become a health information manager? "Some people choose the associate-degree route, which is usually two years," Dixon-Lee said. With an associate's, your salary will range between $25,000 and $45,000 a year. But combine an associate's degree with some experience or get a bachelor's degree, and you can command a starting salary of $45,000 and up.
Monday, June 22, 2009
Uploading Health Records Online A Hot Job Field
If you're one of the record number of jobless Illinoisans, a new career could be waiting for you. Soon, the medical industry will need 75,000 people to help transition to electronic record keeping. CBS 2's Dorothy Tucker says the time to start training is now. At Mercy Hospital, you'll find the medical records department on the second floor. Staffers there are responsible for analyzing each file to make sure the records of thousands of patients are complete and accurate. Until recently, the staff of 28 was a sufficient number to handle the job, but six months ago Mercy put its records online. Susan Oh is the director of Mercy's medical records. She says the transition to electronic medical records has increased the hospital's need for more people with computer skills and healthcare knowledge, people who know "how different systems interface and can work together."Mercy is among the many health care facilities in the country making the switch to electronic records. It's all part of the industry's goal to computerize all healthcare records by 2014 to make it easier for doctors to share information. That's good news for job seekers. "With the initiative of electronic health records, we expect that there will be new types of jobs," Claire Dixon-Lee of the American Health Information Management Association said. The association estimates there are 75,000 people working in medical records and another 75,000 will be needed to get everyone online – and not just hospitals and doctor's offices. Also making the transition will be dental offices, rehab facilities and long-term care facilities, Dixon-Lee said. "There's tremendous growth," she said. How much training does someone need to be prepared to become a health information manager? "Some people choose the associate-degree route, which is usually two years," Dixon-Lee said. With an associate's, your salary will range between $25,000 and $45,000 a year. But combine an associate's degree with some experience or get a bachelor's degree, and you can command a starting salary of $45,000 and up.
JIPMER, Pondicherry; 1050 bedded Hospital installs HMIS from Pune based Softlink International
SoftLink International, a leading Software Product company with core focus on Hospital Automation and Medical Imaging, has bagged the prestigious order for implementation of Hospital Management Information System at JIPMER, Pondicherry.
With more than a decade of indepth experience in the field of Healthcare Information Technology (HIT), Softlink has garnered 150 plus installations globally that span across 12 countries! The core strength of SoftLink lies in its product portfolio, which comprises of a fully integrated suite of HIS/CIS/RIS/PACS, making it a "one-stop shop" for an end-to-end solution approach for any Hospital.
JIPMER with a current bed strength of around 1050 and a daily OPD load of around 4500 patients is ranked among the TOP 10 Teaching Hospitals in India. JIPMER offers high quality sophisticated diagnostic and therapeutic facility to all patients "free of cost" irrespective of their economic status. The institute runs under the direct administrative control of DGHS, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India and is on par with similar institutes like AIIMS, New Delhi, PGIMER, Chandigarh etc.
Recently, JIPMER was declared as an Institute of National importance by way of a legislation approved in Parliament by the Government of India.
With more than a decade of indepth experience in the field of Healthcare Information Technology (HIT), Softlink has garnered 150 plus installations globally that span across 12 countries! The core strength of SoftLink lies in its product portfolio, which comprises of a fully integrated suite of HIS/CIS/RIS/PACS, making it a "one-stop shop" for an end-to-end solution approach for any Hospital.
JIPMER with a current bed strength of around 1050 and a daily OPD load of around 4500 patients is ranked among the TOP 10 Teaching Hospitals in India. JIPMER offers high quality sophisticated diagnostic and therapeutic facility to all patients "free of cost" irrespective of their economic status. The institute runs under the direct administrative control of DGHS, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India and is on par with similar institutes like AIIMS, New Delhi, PGIMER, Chandigarh etc.
Recently, JIPMER was declared as an Institute of National importance by way of a legislation approved in Parliament by the Government of India.
Parkland Moves to Paperless Patient Records
A wireless, electronic medical record system that went live at Parkland Health & Hospital System makes the hospital one of the first integrated health systems in North Texas to move to the technology. Charting and documentation that was once done on paper has now been transferred to a computer-based system, and nurses and other health providers use mobile computer workstations at bedsides to document medical histories, physician orders, vital signs, etc. Jack Kowitt, Parkland's chief information officer said that Parkland now has the most extensive access to electronic inpatient medical records in the medical district and patient information is available at the stroke of a key from anywhere in the hospital. This allows staff to be more efficient, allowing them to focus on patients and patient care. It also helps to ensure accuracy. Testing that went on for the last six months by IT specialists and medical personnel is now complete and included training almost 6,500 nurses and other providers. In order to complete the process, because of the age of the hospital, new hardware and infrastructure has to be installed. This included more than 1,200 workstations, 300 printers and more than 800 wireless antennae. Through research carried out by a Parkland physician a connection between investments in IT and quality of patient care was seen, and the lead researcher, Dr. Ruben Amarashingam, associate chief of medicine services at Parkland found that Texas hospitals with electronic records, automated systems and other technologies had fewer complications, lower costs and lower mortality rates. The study was published in the Archives of Internal Medicine. With the launch of the inpatient and pharmacy systems a $45 million, three-year program to place electronic medical records throughout the entire Parkland system, including the main hospital campus and 31 off-site clinics will be ongoing throughout the year, and by the end of the summer, EMRs will be active at at Parkland's 11 school-based clinics. Fully 120 specialty clinics will go live throughout the next year. Last year, Parkland's Emergency Room implemented a similar system specifically for emergency care.
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