Manager, Patient Information & Administrative Support
Orthopaedic Specialty Center
Manage a full-time staff of 18 that included Adminstrative Assistants (4), Medical Transcriptionists (6) and Patient Information Specialists (8) in a large Orthopaedic Surgery practice that consisted of 14 providers and 4 physician extenders (PA-C's). Maintain an electronic document management system. Managed provider credentialing, tracking of CME's and registering providers for CME credit events, scheduling depositions. Designed and implemented paperless workflow. Implemented transition from paper charts to a document management system; created department policies & procedures, created teams within the department to handle all aspects medical records from chart prep & scanning to importing medical reports. Implemented transcription service change that had a direct impact on cost-savings & successfully achieved 48 hour turn-around time from the time of dictation, to import into the patient’s medical record. Provided executive-level support; hired & trained executive assistants; created templates, tables, spreadsheets.