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Question: Are medical records clerk jobs - disappearing, too?

Posted: Mar 17, 2014

I saw one advertised I was interested in, but wondered if the EMR is going to do away with that position, as well. Thanks for any info!

I can't find any in my area. - You might be right.

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I too have looked. It was something I used to do years ago in college, and I am in a place where I would be happy to have that job back. But they seem to be few and far between. I base that guess on looking at the job postings for all my local hospitals, of which there are several here in Columbus, OH. The last time I worked, we were called Information Specialists in the HIM department. Regardless, finding nothing in the job postings remotely matching the job description any more. :(

I think I'll skip applying for the medical records - job. I have an interview coming up - S_M

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for a local governmental job, which is farther from home, but I think will likely be more secure. Will hold off on medical records for now, I think.

Yay for you!!! - government job

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I hope you get the local gov't job! It will be worth your gas money because it will most likely pay at least $15.00 and provide full benefits. Keep us posted!

The pay is good, $20. I'm sort of hopeful, but - there are many other applicants. N_M

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Medical records jobs soon to be obsolete - sm

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In my area of the midwest all of our local hospitals and clinics have only a skeleton crew of medical records clerks. They have moved everything over to EMR and now only have people on staff to answer phones. All records ordering is done online.

Please - Anon100

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Would you please stop telling people that medical record jobs are soon to be obsolete? I was hired for an HIM job after I was laid off from transcription. Our department is fully staffed. In fact, we have added 2 positions in the last 6 months. I went from temporary full-time to permanent full-time after working for about a year. For us, the EMR has only created new roles. Not all records ordering can be processed on line. Also, scanners and abstractors are needed. People still do record review and analysis, you are overlooking a lot of functions.

I agree - Anon200

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Yes, please stop telling people that medical records jobs are going to be obsolete. Our EHR didn't eliminate anybody. Some people just changed roles. We've had ours a long time...long enough to see what the changes are. We have jobs that didn't exist 10 years ago.

If there WERE "file clerk" jobs, none of you would want them because the pay was low.

I've applied to numerous med rec clerk positions at my local hospital and never hear back. - They all want MAs to do it now. nm

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What proof do you have that "they all" - want MAs?

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I work in HIM and do not know of anyone wanting MAs, much less actually using MAs to work in medical records.

It is far more likely for them to want RHITs, when they can get them, but MAs aren't even close to being recognized in health information management.

Only going off my experience of applying for such positions - see message

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In my local hospital any time a unit clerk type position is up, I've applied, only to be turned down. In the description of them, they "prefer" an MA. I then talked to an employee of this hospital and was told that they only put the job ad out there for "legal" reasons but always hire from within, and mostly it's a transfer from another dept or an MA with more responsibility now. That is my experience anyway!

Medical Record Clerk vs Unit Clerk - Not the same!!!!!

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The thread was talking about MEDICAL RECORD clerks, not UNIT clerks. Unit clerks are completely different and they probably do prefer MAs.

Medical records is the department that deals with maintenance and storage of medical records and health information, privacy, security, coding, statistics, etc., whether paper based or electronic. Education for that is a 2 or 4 year college program, a master's degree, sometimes a doctorate. They no more want medical assistants than pharmacy would.

Okay, okay, calm down, my mistake. Geez. - I wont apply to anymore nm

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Not really. They are being replaced by - newly created jobs

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As paper records disappear, jobs that used to deal with filing and retrieval, sorting and assembling pages, checking to see that everything is signed, etc., disappear, too.

In their place, there are new jobs dealing with electronic information and the systems that hold it. These are not IT jobs, either, but health information management. They may require some additional training.

Look for jobs in privacy and security, clinical documentation review, clinical documentation improvement, data and healthcare statistics, compliance, and informatics. Lots of jobs in software support, managing the electronic record contents, user training, troubleshooting. (That is why the informatics degree at WGU is such a good deal.)

There ARE jobs, but they don't look like the old ones and they aren't as visible.

Try the link below.

My guess is.... - My2cents

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with EMRs taking over there is less and less need for a "human" and a lot of those positions are being transitioned to IT who provide support if there's a problem. I'd be real nervous taking any type of hospital job for medical records clerk or anything working directly for a hospital since those jobs are disappearing due to outsourcing and computer system changes.

office setting - fuzzyheaded

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In the office setting, they are combining this with
Combination of new emr and.adding
It to medical assistant jobs

Yep. Be a clerk and a nurse. Double duty for the same price. - nm

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No, you are missing something - Informaticist

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IT handles the HARDWARE and some of the programming, but informatics and medical records handes the informational CONTENT of the medical record.

Going by your advice, a person would be pretty much limited to mowing lawns.

It seems as though most people here have their expectations set on finding almost bizarrely low-level jobs. Nobody seems to even consider that there are better things out here.

The job you have now is not low-level, even if pay has dropped for it.

Look for something better. Stop aspiring to minimum wage go-nowhere jobs. If you have to take one to get out of MT, fine, but set your sights higher for the long term.

One of the reasons you are stuck now is that you didn't look toward the future before. You didn't upgrade your skills and education into new areas in HIM or anything else. Don't make that mistake again.

In our area in the West...sm - Laurie G

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they are all volunteer positions; in fact, there are now over 700 volunteers in one of the hospitals, and close to that many in the other hospital system in a city of around 400,000 in population. These positions were all formerly paid positions...sigh.

What do these medical records - volunteers do?

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