| Profession |
Skills Required |
Duties Performed |
| Medical Biller and Coder |
- Management of Financial Resources: Determining how money will be spent to get the work done, and accounting for these expenditures.
- Systems Evaluation: Identifying measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system.
- Repairing: Repairing machines or systems using the needed tools.
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- Consult classification manuals to locate information about disease processes.
- Compile medical care and census data for statistical reports on diseases treated, surgery performed, or use of hospital beds.
- Process and prepare business and government forms.
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| Business Database Administrator |
- Active Listening: Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
- Science: Using scientific rules and methods to solve problems.
- Negotiation: Bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences.
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- Train users and answer questions.
- Test programs or databases, correct errors and make necessary modifications.
- Modify existing databases and database management systems or direct programmers and analysts to make changes.
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| Medical Transcriptionist |
- Management of Personnel Resources: Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job.
- Troubleshooting: Determining causes of operating errors and deciding what to do about it.
- Repairing: Repairing machines or systems using the needed tools.
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- Receive patients, schedule appointments, and maintain patient records.
- Produce medical reports, correspondence, records, patient-care information, statistics, medical research, and administrative material.
- Set up and maintain medical files and databases, including records such as x-ray, lab, and procedure reports, medical histories, diagnostic workups, admission and discharge summaries, and clinical resumes.
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