Medical Records Manager

Maintaining accurate records of patients’ medical histories, past treatments, and vital statistics is critical to the task of providing accurate and effective health care.  It is the job of the medical records manager to oversee the creation and updating of these records, ensuring that medical facilities have the most accurate and most current information possible when they need to treat a patient’s illness or diagnose an injury.

For larger medical facilities such as clinics and hospitals, the medical records manager supervises medical coding and case management personnel.  The medical records manager is also responsible for enacting records updating and retention policies, ensuring that procedures and regulations are being followed, and creating reports as needed by hospital administration or government agencies.

A medical records director position generally requires at least a master’s degree in a medical discipline or business-related field, as well as several years of experience in a medical records environment.  Certifications may also be necessary for medical records director jobs, such as the Registered Health Information Administrator (RHIA) or the Registered Health Information Technician (RHIT) certifications offered by the American Health Information Management Association.  A medical records manager typically works in the records or archiving offices of medical facilities and institutions, but may also work in separate facilities dedicated to the storage and maintenance of medical records.