Medical Records Specialists (29-2072.00)

Compile, process, and maintain medical records of hospital and clinic patients in a manner consistent with medical, administrative, ethical, legal, and regulatory requirements of the healthcare system. Classify medical and healthcare concepts, including diagnosis, procedures, medical services, and equipment, into the healthcare industry's numerical coding system. Includes medical coders.

16 tasks, 16 offered as a checkbox. Back to the catalog.

Initial pass, pending human review

Task classes (digital, physical-low-risk, physical-high-risk, licensed-advisory-only) and checkbox eligibility are an initial automated pass and are pending human review.

This site includes information from the O*NET 31.0 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA), used under the CC BY 4.0 license. O*NET(R) is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. Task text is unmodified; Zeta-Reticuli AI added the classification fields, and the information is not endorsed by USDOL/ETA.

Task	Class	Offered as checkbox	Human approval
Protect the security of medical records to ensure that confidentiality is maintained.	digital	yes	required
Review records for completeness, accuracy, and compliance with regulations.	licensed-advisory-only	yes	required
Scan patients' health records into electronic formats.	physical-low-risk	yes	required
Release information to persons or agencies according to regulations.	licensed-advisory-only	yes	required
Enter data, such as demographic characteristics, history and extent of disease, diagnostic procedures, or treatment into computer.	digital	yes	no
Maintain or operate a variety of health record indexes or storage and retrieval systems to collect, classify, store, or analyze information.	digital	yes	no
Process patient admission or discharge documents.	digital	yes	no
Retrieve patient medical records for physicians, technicians, or other medical personnel.	digital	yes	required
Resolve or clarify codes or diagnoses with conflicting, missing, or unclear information by consulting with doctors or others or by participating in the coding team's regular meetings.	licensed-advisory-only	yes	required
Compile and maintain patients' medical records to document condition and treatment and to provide data for research or cost control and care improvement efforts.	digital	yes	no
Identify, compile, abstract, and code patient data, using standard classification systems.	licensed-advisory-only	yes	required
Assign the patient to diagnosis-related groups (DRGs), using appropriate computer software.	licensed-advisory-only	yes	required
Process and prepare business or government forms.	digital	yes	required
Consult classification manuals to locate information about disease processes.	digital	yes	no
Transcribe medical reports.	digital	yes	no
Schedule medical appointments for patients.	digital	yes	no

This catalog contains information from O*NET 31.0 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA), used under the CC BY 4.0 license. O*NET(R) is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. Task text is unmodified; classification, approval and signing fields are added by this project and have not been reviewed or endorsed by USDOL/ETA.