Head of the Medical Record Department

The head of the Medical Record Department enforces the policies of the Medical Record Committee. As the administrator of a critical hospital department, this person oversees the processing, storage, and retrieval of medical records for:

• Patients who are entering the hospital

• Patients whose records must be copied for legal purposes

• Patients whose records must be faxed to another healthcare facility.
  

Because the head of the Medical Record Department is charged with making sure that hospital records are dictated in a timely fashion, this person is frequently forced to ride shotgun on doctors who are delinquent in completing their reports.

[Consciousness Raising Exercise #33]

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