Medical Records Assistant Job
Work Hours: Full-time, 08 hours per day
Salary:
Attractive
Job Deadline: 28 February 2023
Number of Jobs: 01
Hiring Entity: Infectious Diseases Institute
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| Infectious Diseases Institute |
Location: In Uganda
Job Details:
Vacancy Code : MRAX007
Classification : Short-term contract
Duty Station : Pakwach HC IV
General summary:
Responsible for collection, validating, entry of data in the respective data bases and maintaining an updated secure filling records system for easy access as well as generating periodic reports.
Duties and Responsibilities:
1. Generate and share lists for ‘every clinic day expected patients’ before the clinic commences, produce and submit a ‘missed visit’ report on every clinic day by 4pm to the community linkage stakeholders like LRAs in line with MoH data management guidelines.
2. Track patients’ files especially ones without clinic exercise books and retrieve any information required by the key stakeholders in line with data management guidelines
3. Generate a monthly report for all patient’s clinic attendances, unscheduled, scheduled, new patients in line with MoH data management guide lines
4. Receive and register newly referred/ linked patients on every clinic day, assign each a distinctive clinic number, and updating appointments in line with clinic flow guidelines and in line with MoH data management guide lines
5. Record post patients’ data from their files into the facility’s electronic data base (Uganda EMR) on a daily basis in line with MoH data management guide lines
6. Collect, clean and routinely validate (weekly, monthly, quarterly and annually) data/information in health facility and from community level in line with IDI and MoH data management guide lines
7. Provide necessary data tools to all health facility staff and provide technical support in data documentation in line with MoH data management guide lines
8. Develop and submit periodic reports to key stakeholders and give timely feedback to the health facility staff in line with IDI and MoH reporting guidelines
9. Develop & maintain proper filing, storage and retrieval systems of patients’ medical records in the health facility in line with MoH data management guide lines
10. Periodically disseminate the updated health facility ‘Performance Monitoring Plan (PMP)’ and quality improvement indicators to track the performance of health facility in line with MoH data management guide lines
11. Any other duties as assigned by the supervisor
Education Requirements:
1. A diploma in Computer Science, Information Management and Data Management
Required experience and skills:
1. Prior work experience in a busy HIV/AIDS setting is an added advantage
2. 1-2 years of related experience
3. Willingness to work and live in rural areas is required
Application procedure
Interested and Qualified, Click here to Apply
The Senior Human Resource Manager
Infectious Diseases Institute — IDI Knowledge Centre, Makerere University Main
Campus; College of Health Sciences, Makerere University
P.O. Box 22418, Kampala, Uganda
Posting Date: 2023-02-10
