Career Overlap Transition record
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Clinical informatics manager to medical records manager

A clinical informatics manager already meets 34% of what the medical records manager role asks for. The move turns on 18 required skills not yet in the profile.

Fig. 1 · Skill transfer ESCO v1.2.1 · directional
From clinical informatics manager
34 % overlap
Distant match
To medical records manager
16 You already bring
18 Still to learn
58 Skills in the target role2
Learning distance Substantial retraining

74.2/ 100

1 How much of what a medical records manager is expected to do is already part of a clinical informatics manager’s work. Directional: the figure for the reverse move differs, because moving into a speciality is not the same problem as moving out of one. 2 Every skill the medical records manager role is recorded as needing, required and optional together. What these numbers mean.

Why

Why this move works

A medical records manager role treats 12 of its required skills as things a clinical informatics manager already does. You would walk in with these on day one.

  • apply organisational techniques
  • communicate in healthcare
  • comply with legislation related to health care
  • data storage
  • database
  • follow clinical guidelines

What stands in the way is 18 required skills the profile does not yet cover. Table 3 groups them; Table 4 says which to take first.

Table 2

Table 2 · What you already bring

Of the 16 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A medical records manager role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a clinical informatics manager background worth leading with.

Skill the target role also needs Area
  • already held participate in medical records' auditing activities information skills
  • already held review patient's medical data information skills
  • already held perform clinical coding procedures information skills
  • already held manage healthcare staff business, administration and law
  • already held manage workflow processes communication, collaboration and creativity
  • already held database information and communication technologies (icts)

All 16 carried skills, including the 12 the medical records manager role treats as required.

Table 3

Table 3 · What you may need to learn

The 42 missing skills fall into 9 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, numbered in the order worth working in. Areas carrying the most required skills come first, and inside each one the required skills sit above the optional ones. Nothing here is a verdict on you: it is a list of what this particular job asks for that your current one does not.

Skill to pick up Tier
01 information skills 7 required, 7 supplementary
  • still to learn archive healthcare users' records required
  • still to learn collect statistics on medical records required
  • still to learn manage digital archives required
  • still to learn undertake clinical audit required
  • still to learn manage healthcare users' data required
  • still to learn manage information in health care required
  • still to learn oversee record management required
  • optional, not held maintain treatment records optional
  • optional, not held perform records management optional
  • optional, not held transfer medical information optional
  • optional, not held monitor regulations in social services optional
  • optional, not held process data optional
  • optional, not held record healthcare users' billing information optional
  • optional, not held record treated patient's information optional
02 business, administration and law 3 required, 3 supplementary
  • still to learn health records management required
  • still to learn healthcare administration required
  • still to learn health care legislation required
  • optional, not held customer service optional
  • optional, not held bookkeeping regulations optional
  • optional, not held risk management optional
03 health and welfare 2 required, 4 supplementary
  • still to learn clinical coding required
  • still to learn professional documentation in health care required
  • optional, not held patient record storage optional
  • optional, not held human anatomy optional
  • optional, not held human physiology optional
  • optional, not held medical terminology optional
04 communication, collaboration and creativity 2 required, 2 supplementary
  • still to learn work in multidisciplinary health teams required
  • still to learn work in a multicultural environment in health care required
  • optional, not held advise on medical records optional
  • optional, not held interview people optional
05 working with computers 2 required, 1 supplementary
  • still to learn use e-health and mobile health technologies required
  • still to learn use electronic health records management system required
  • optional, not held perform backups optional
06 management skills 1 required, 2 supplementary
  • still to learn identify patients' medical records required
  • optional, not held evaluate employees optional
  • optional, not held supervise daily information operations optional

3 further areas in the appendix

Table 4

Table 4 · Where to start

The 3 entries a medical records manager role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.

Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.

Appendix

Appendix · The rest of the record

All 16 skills that carry over
Skill Type
  • already held apply organisational techniques skill
  • already held communicate in healthcare skill
  • already held comply with legislation related to health care skill
  • already held data storage knowledge
  • already held database knowledge
  • already held follow clinical guidelines skill
  • already held manage healthcare staff knowledge
  • already held medical informatics knowledge
  • already held participate in medical records' auditing activities skill
  • already held perform clinical coding procedures skill
  • already held recruit employees skill
  • already held supervise staff skill
  • already held collect healthcare user's general data skill
  • already held manage budgets skill
  • already held manage workflow processes skill
  • already held review patient's medical data skill
The 3 learning areas not shown above
Skill to pick up Tier
07 social sciences, journalism and information 1 required
  • still to learn document management required
08 assisting and caring 4 supplementary
  • optional, not held answer patients' questions optional
  • optional, not held formulate a treatment plan optional
  • optional, not held maintain healthcare user data confidentiality optional
  • optional, not held meet the requirements of social security reimbursement bodies optional
09 services 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held health care system optional
24 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
Skill to pick up Tier
  • optional, not held advise on medical records optional
  • optional, not held answer patients' questions optional
  • optional, not held customer service optional
  • optional, not held formulate a treatment plan optional
  • optional, not held interview people optional
  • optional, not held maintain healthcare user data confidentiality optional
  • optional, not held maintain treatment records optional
  • optional, not held meet the requirements of social security reimbursement bodies optional
  • optional, not held patient record storage optional
  • optional, not held perform backups optional
  • optional, not held perform records management optional
  • optional, not held transfer medical information optional
  • optional, not held bookkeeping regulations optional
  • optional, not held evaluate employees optional
  • optional, not held health care system optional
  • optional, not held human anatomy optional
  • optional, not held human physiology optional
  • optional, not held medical terminology optional
  • optional, not held monitor regulations in social services optional
  • optional, not held process data optional
  • optional, not held record healthcare users' billing information optional
  • optional, not held record treated patient's information optional
  • optional, not held risk management optional
  • optional, not held supervise daily information operations optional
43 held skills the medical records manager role does not ask for
Skill Type
  • not needed by the target role IBM InfoSphere DataStage knowledge
  • not needed by the target role IBM InfoSphere Information Server knowledge
  • not needed by the target role Informatica PowerCenter knowledge
  • not needed by the target role Oracle Data Integrator knowledge
  • not needed by the target role Oracle Warehouse Builder knowledge
  • not needed by the target role Pentaho Data Integration knowledge
  • not needed by the target role QlikView Expressor knowledge
  • not needed by the target role SAP Data Services knowledge
  • not needed by the target role SQL Server Integration Services knowledge
  • not needed by the target role adhere to organisational guidelines skill
  • not needed by the target role advise on training courses skill
  • not needed by the target role analyse large-scale data in healthcare skill
  • not needed by the target role analytical methods in biomedical sciences knowledge
  • not needed by the target role apply good clinical practices skill
  • not needed by the target role audit techniques knowledge
  • not needed by the target role clinical reports knowledge
  • not needed by the target role clinical science knowledge
  • not needed by the target role communicate in foreign languages with health service providers skill
  • not needed by the target role comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice skill
  • not needed by the target role computer science knowledge
  • not needed by the target role conditions for professional practice of clinical psychology knowledge
  • not needed by the target role conduct clinical software research skill
  • not needed by the target role contribute to continuity of health care skill
  • not needed by the target role contribute to public health campaigns skill
  • not needed by the target role creation of clinical psychological opinions knowledge
  • not needed by the target role data extraction, transformation and loading tools knowledge
  • not needed by the target role drug interaction management knowledge
  • not needed by the target role health care occupation-specific ethics knowledge
  • not needed by the target role health psychology knowledge
  • not needed by the target role healthcare analytics knowledge
  • not needed by the target role implement strategic planning skill
  • not needed by the target role inform policy makers on health-related challenges skill
  • not needed by the target role manage project metrics skill
  • not needed by the target role meet deadlines skill
  • not needed by the target role multi-professional cooperation in health care knowledge
  • not needed by the target role multidisciplinary research knowledge
  • not needed by the target role nursing science knowledge
  • not needed by the target role oversee clinical information system activities skill
  • not needed by the target role perform project management skill
  • not needed by the target role scientific research methodology knowledge

3 further entries not listed here

14 gaps that are knowledge rather than practice

Knowledge gaps usually close through study. Practical skill gaps usually need something you can point at.

Skill to pick up Tier
  • still to learn clinical coding required
  • still to learn document management required
  • still to learn health records management required
  • still to learn healthcare administration required
  • still to learn professional documentation in health care required
  • still to learn health care legislation required
  • optional, not held customer service optional
  • optional, not held patient record storage optional
  • optional, not held bookkeeping regulations optional
  • optional, not held health care system optional
  • optional, not held human anatomy optional
  • optional, not held human physiology optional
  • optional, not held medical terminology optional
  • optional, not held risk management optional
Index

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FAQ

Common questions about this move

Can a clinical informatics manager become a medical records manager?

Yes, and it is a substantial move. A clinical informatics manager already covers 34% of what a medical records manager is expected to do: 16 skills carry over, 12 of which the medical records manager role treats as required.

What skills does a clinical informatics manager need to become a medical records manager?

18 required skills are missing, plus 24 optional ones. They fall into 9 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, led by information skills. The single most important is archive healthcare users' records.

How hard is the move from clinical informatics manager to medical records manager?

Its learning distance is 74.2 out of 100, which is the substantial band. That accounts for both how much is missing and how specialised those skills are.

Note

How this record was compiled

Both occupations are taken from ESCO, which lists the skills and knowledge each occupation is expected to have and marks every one required or optional. Nothing here is a prediction about hiring, and nothing here knows that a particular employer wants a particular certificate. Treat Table 3 as a starting point for your own research rather than a syllabus. The full method states what these figures can and cannot tell you.