Clinical Coding Specialist

Unit Summary

Information Support includes the following departments: Health Records and Transcription, Patient Registration, Decision Support Services, Financial Planning and Analysis. Information Support facilitates the creation of a knowledge rich environment for making timely and informed tactical and strategic decisions and maximizing value of care and services provided. It provides accurate, timely, useful information for making decisions based on evidence to help deliver appropriate patient care. Also provides the expertise in analyzing and interpreting data and presenting and educating the corporation on this information.

The Health Information Management Professional is responsible for the coding and abstracting of records of personal health information in accordance with CIHI guidelines and standards and other relevant guidelines such as CCO (Cancer Care Ontario). The individual is responsible to ensure t...