Kathryn Horkley

This position performs Patient Registration & Health Records duties such as:

• Completes Patient Registration documentation for admission of patients by interviewing patients, relatives or friends to obtain personal information and proof of eligibility;

• Explains Admission form, eligibility policies, room differentials and obtains signatures on forms as required;

• Requisitions diagnostic tests and procedures;

• Receiving payments for patient bills and sundry accounts, balances daily cash, prepare bank deposits and cash reports, maintain petty cash accounts;

• Performs accounts receivable duties, receiving and inputting charges/payments, posting billing information and issuing change and receipts;

• Receives and records patient valuables for safekeeping;

• Health records duties - pulling and assembling charts/files; identifying and processing corrections; receiving and processing requests for release of information; pulling designated classes of files; reviewing completed charts and files; calculating and maintaining statistics; monitoring and maintaining health record tracking systems;

• Assembles charts/files, identifies and processes corrections in medical records, release of information, calculating and maintaining statistics, entering information into appropriate registries and databases;

• Retrieves, organizes and maintains filing systems for patient records, reports, paper and electronic documentation;

• Reviews admission/discharge forms or reports for correct insurance classification

• Performs hospital switchboard duties as required;

• Provides information and directions to visitors and handles telephone inquiries such as patient room numbers and visiting hours;

• Produces correspondence including letters, memoranda, medical reports, forms, medical billings from rough draft, general instruction and/or recording devises;

• Receives, opens and redirects all hospital’s incoming mail.

• Participated in available trainings to improve software knowledge
• Optimized test cases to maximize success of manual software testing
• Designed testing scenarios for usability testing
• Investigated causes of non-conforming software
• Conducted regression testing and submitted observations to development team
• Assessed software bugs and compiled findings along with suggested resolutions for development team members
• Created successful test scripts to manage automated feature testing,
• Wrote and optimized test cases to maximize success of manual software testing with consistent, thorough approaches
• Documented integration issues and vulnerabilities and outlined improvement recommendations
• Fixed identified issues to improve workflows
• Identified and tracked software defects and supported developers in resolving problems by completing additional tests