The Department of Public Health prioritizes equitable and inclusive access to quality healthcare for its community and values the importance of diversity in its workforce. All employees at the Department of Public Health work to advance equity, inclusion, and diversity with a specific lens and focus on race, ethnicity, gender, sex, sexuality, disability, and immigration status.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS - Required

EXPERIENCE: One (1) year of experience, within the last five (5) years, performing one of the following duties:

• Abstraction of medical information
• Coding
• Release of medical information
• Working in any healthcare setting dealing with medical records.

Substitution:

• One (1) year of clerical experience AND completion of a comparable Community College course indicated below from a Health Information Technology Program approved by the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA): Introduction to Health Information Technology, Organization of Health Data, Medical Terminology and Legal Aspects of Health Records, may be substituted for the required experience; OR
• Possession of a valid Registered Health Information Technician (RHIT) or Registered Health Information Administrator (RHIA) certification may be substituted for the required experience.