- Overall supervision of Medical Records activities
- Responsible for standardization of all the formats used in the hospital for patient care
- Coordinates the medical audit activities
- Reports the deficiency check information to the management and the clinical heads
- Informing the statistics and information on notifiable diseases to the management and Head of medical services.
- Approve changes in name of patient, demographic data as per hospital policy. Authorize to issue Xerox copies of medical records on patient written request or to relative as per hospital policy.
- To assist the medical staff and their committees in the hospital in executing the quality assurance program.
- To collect medical, administrative and other statistics from HIS required by the hospital and to provide health information for planning and evaluation of healthcare.
- To develop policies and procedures relating to the MRD in accordance with the Health Directorate.
- To cooperate with the medical, nursing, head of departments, patients, health agencies, other hospitals, and legal authorities for the smooth and efficient functioning of the hospital in general and of the medical record department in particular.
- To implement information technology (Computer application) for the effective functioning of the outpatient, inpatient and emergency registration systems to collect clinical and administrative statistics.
- To select appropriate personnel for the MRD and train them for performing their jobs efficiently.
- To supervise the work of MRD staff.
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