2 Fresher Medical Records Assistant Job Opportunities – Infectious Diseases Institute (IDI)

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Job Title:  Medical Records Assistant (2 Fresher Job Opportunities)

Organisation: Infectious Diseases Institute (IDI)

Duty Station:  Uganda

Job Code: MRAX007

 

About US:

Infectious Diseases Institute (IDI) is an independently governed institute within the College of Health Sciences at Makerere University and has the mission “To strengthen health systems in Africa, with a strong emphasis on infectious diseases, through research and capacity development.” IDI has operations across Uganda as well as in a number of other African countries and has a staffing of over 1,000 managing multiple projects in research, clinical services, public health and training.

 

Job Summary: The Medical Records Assistant will 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.

 

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Track patients’ files especially ones without clinic exercise books and retrieve any information required by the key stakeholders in line with data management guidelines
  • Generate a monthly report for all patient’s clinic attendances, unscheduled, scheduled, new patients in line with MoH data management guide lines
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Provide necessary data tools to all health facility staff and provide technical support in data documentation in line with MoH data management guide lines
  • 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
  • Develop & maintain proper filing, storage and retrieval systems of patients’ medical records in the health facility in line with MoH data management guide lines
  • 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
  • Any other duties as assigned by the supervisor


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Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

  • The ideal applicant must hold a diploma in Computer Science, Information Management and Data Management
  • Prior work experience in a busy HIV/AIDS setting is an added advantage
  • 1-2 years of related experience
  • Willingness to work and live in rural areas is required

 

How to Apply:

All suitably qualified and interested applicants should apply online at the link below.

 

Click Here

 

Deadline: 30th October 2022

 

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