Health Information Management Manager

Your experience matters

At UW Health Rehabilitation Hospital we are committed to empowering and supporting a diverse and determined workforce who can drive quality scalability and significant impact across our hospitals and your role youll support those that are in our facilities who are interfacing and providing care to our patients and community members. We believe that our collective efforts will shape a healthier future for the communities we serve.

What we offer

$ 5000 Sign on Bonus!

Fundamental to providing great care is supporting and rewarding our addition to your base compensation this position also offers:

Health (Medical Dental Vision) and 401K Benefits for full-time employees

Competitive Paid Time Off

Employee Assistance Program mental physical and financial wellness assistance

Tuition Reimbursement/Assistance for qualified applicants

And much more...

Health Information Manager Position Summary

Oversees Health Information Management (HIM) operations to ensure the integrity availability and confidentiality of medical records. Assists with planning organizing directing and maintaining department workflows; supports physicians with electronic medical record (EMR) use and timely record completion; manages release-of-information processes; and ensures compliance with policies HIPAA and accreditation standards (e.g. The Joint Commission/JCAHO CARF).

Qualifications & Requirements:

• Essential Functions: Maintain confidentiality of all patient care information and protect patient rights in all HIM activities.
• Assist in planning organizing directing and maintaining the HIM department in accordance with policies procedures state/federal regulations and accreditation standards (HIPAA JCAHO/TJC CARF).
• Establish and maintain procedures for collection abstracting filing indexing and retrieval of medical records.
• Assist staff physicians with EMR navigation and support timely completion of records within required timeframes.
• Serve as a resource to hospital leadership and staff on HIM rules regulations and accreditation standards (HIPAA TJC).
• Supervise HIM employees including onboarding and ongoing training in HIM functions (if applicable).
• Process discharged records within required timeframes including assembly analysis and abstracting.
• Review and process requests for patient information (ROI) within required timeframes; assist/guide staff handling after-hours requests.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Additional Information

Partners with Compliance Quality and IT to support audits survey readiness data integrity and privacy/security practices. Monitors key HIM metrics (e.g. physician delinquency ROI turnaround) and supports continuous improvement. Ensures documentation and retention practices meet legal regulatory and organizational requirements.

Knowledge Skills & Abilities

Credentials: RHIT (or eligible) or RHIA (or eligible) or AHIMA coding certification.

Experience: Two (2) years of HIM leadership experience preferred ideally in a hospital setting.

Skills/Knowledge: HIPAA TJC/JCAHO and CARF standards; EMR proficiency; medical record lifecycle management; release-of-information workflows; privacy/security practices; supervisory/teaching ability; strong organization communication and follow-through.

EEOC Statement:

UW Health Rehabilitation Hospital is committed to providing Equal Employment Opportunities for all applicants and employees and complies with all applicable laws prohibiting discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment because of color race sex age religion national origin disability genetic information gender identity sexual orientation veterans status or any other basis protected by applicable federal state or local law.