Description
Clinical coders read patients' medical records. They analyse and interpret medical statements about diseases, injuries and procedures. Clinical coders convert this information into health classification codes in order to calculate treatment reimbursements, to produce statistics and to monitor health care performance.
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Theoretical Knowledge
Practical Skills
communicate in healthcaremaintain healthcare user data confidentialityuse electronic health records management systemfollow clinical guidelinesadhere to organisational guidelinesmanage healthcare users' datareview patient's medical dataperform clinical coding proceduresmanage digital documentscollect statistics on medical recordsarchive healthcare users' recordsidentify patients' medical recordscollect healthcare user's general data