Job Summary
The Medical Editor ensures the highest level of clinical accuracy and narrative quality for all medical reports.
Key Responsibilities
1. Clinical Quality Assurance & Editing
- Reference Accuracy: Verify the accuracy of transcribed reports by cross-referencing interviews, patient charts, and info sheets.
- Proofreading & Copyediting: Edit reports for grammar, style, and consistency in tense and format. Ensure compliance with AAMT (Association for Healthcare Documentation Integrity) standards.
- Substantial Editing: Re-structure paragraphs and condense materials to ensure narratives effectively present patient information for clinical, insurance, or legal use.
2. Workflow & Production Management
- Production Oversight: Monitor Historian progress and schedules; perform final re-touch and proofing before transmittal.
- Data Management: Maintain productivity logs and workflow sheets to provide statistical summaries for production reports.
- Final Transmittal: Prepare and send final reports and handle specific instructions for the Customer Service Department.
3. Training & Technical Research
- Coaching & Mentorship: Provide feedback, verbal cuing, and coaching to Historians based on quality evaluation forms and identified error patterns.
- Research & Standards: Use technical source documents (dictionaries, manuals) to ensure correct usage of medical/surgical/legal terms.
- Template Management: Create and update standards, guidelines, and templates for primary accounts.
Minimum Qualifications
- Education: Preferably a graduate of a Medical Allied course.
- Experience: Requires 12 years of experience as a Medical Editor or in a similar clinical documentation role.
- Language Proficiency: Above-average English proficiency with excellent comprehension and analytical skills.
- Technical Skills: Efficient knowledge of basic computer systems, internet applications, and word processing programs.
- Work Setup: Must be willing to work onsite in Upper McKinley, Taguig, and amenable to a Night Shift schedule.
