Occupation Atlasmedical records clerk
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/14eb2c85-fce5-40b6-bcd0-46ac99994b0d
medical records clerk
Medical records clerks organise, keep up-to-date and archive patients` records for medical staff availability. They transfer medical information from a patient’s paper records to an electronic template.
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Job Zone
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Zone 3: Medium Preparation Needed
Medium preparation. Vocational training, related on-the-job experience, or an associate degree, with one to two years of training that combines experience and informal instruction.
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Occupational interest profile
CSRConventional · Social · Realistic — the three strongest interests, in order
- C Conventional5.75
- S Social4.80
- R Realistic4.06
- I Investigative3.80
- E Enterprising1.98
- A Artistic1.00
RIASEC (Holland) interests on O*NET's 0–7 scale: what the work draws on, not what any individual prefers. Hover a row for what each dimension means.
Job Zone and interest data are borrowed from Medical Assistants (31-9092.00): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, its close O*NET match, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.
Typically associated skills
Essential (30)
ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to this occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role.
- adhere to organisational guidelines
- administrative tasks in a medical environment
- apply organisational techniques
- archive healthcare users' records
- clinical coding
- collect healthcare user's general data
- collect statistics on medical records
- comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice
- data storage
- database
- deliver case notes
- display medical problems
- document management
- follow clinical guidelines
- health care legislation
- health care system
- health records management
- identify patients' medical records
- maintain healthcare user data confidentiality
- manage digital archives
- manage healthcare users' data
- medical informatics
- medical terminology
- perform backups
- perform clinical coding procedures
- process data
- professional documentation in health care
- type on electronic devices
- use electronic health records management system
- work in multidisciplinary health teams
Optional (16)
- answer patients' questions
- communicate in foreign languages with health service providers
- communicate in healthcare
- communicate with customers
- customer service
- handle paperwork
- manage digital documents
- medical studies
- participate in medical records' auditing activities
- pharmacology
- review patient's medical data
- send samples to laboratory
- transfer medical information
- use communication techniques
- use databases
- work in a multicultural environment in health care
O*NET equivalents
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