NU Healthcare is looking for administrators for medical record disclosure

NU Healthcare is part of the Västra Götaland region and is one of Sweden's larger county hospitals. We are located at NÄL (Norra Älvsborg County Hospital) in Trollhättan and Uddevalla Hospital. The hospital's catchment area encompasses 280,000 inhabitants. Together, we are about 5,000 employees who work every day to provide good and safe specialist healthcare. We are located on the west coast, and our area offers varied nature with both sea, mountains, forests, and lakes.

Are you our new colleague?

We are facing significant development and change in the area of digitization in the coming years, and we are looking for you who want to help drive this development forward.

In our unit, about 40 employees work in various functions, including system administrators, archive managers, archivists, and assistants. We work at both Uddevalla Hospital and NÄL.

The Reception and Archive is part of NU Healthcare's administration. The unit consists of a reception, medical record archive, and e-archive. In the Medical Record Group, we offer the opportunity to work with important societal issues in a developing and stimulating environment where you will work independently and together with wonderful colleagues.

We are now looking for engaged and structured administrators

As an employee with us, you will handle and administer requests for medical record disclosure from patients, healthcare providers, authorities, and other authorized entities. You are responsible for ensuring that disclosures are made in accordance with the Patient Data Act, the Public Access to Information and Secrecy Act, and GDPR. The work also involves conducting confidentiality assessments and collaborating with lawyers, chief physicians, and healthcare units in more complex cases.

You will manage both physical and digital medical records in our systems, including the medical record system Melior. An important part of the work is also to inform and guide both internal and external parties on issues related to medical record disclosure, as well as contributing to quality assurance and development of our processes.

Your responsibilities include:

• Confidentiality assessments of medical records.
• Application of legislation, such as the Health and Medical Services Act (HSL), the Patient Data Act (PDL), and the Public Access to Information and Secrecy Act (OSL).
• Documentation and record-keeping in our case management systems and healthcare administrative systems.

Qualifications

You have a degree from a university or college in social work, law, or another field that the employer deems equivalent. Furthermore, you have experience in administrative work, case handling, and investigation of public documents, preferably within healthcare, government, region, or other public sector activities. You have a very good ability to express yourself in Swedish, both orally and in writing.

It is highly meritorious if you have good knowledge of laws and regulations within the healthcare sector, the Administrative Procedure Act, and the principle of public access. It is also meritorious if you have previous experience working in healthcare administrative systems such as Melior, Obstetrix, Elvis, and Barium.

As a person, you have a good ability to analyze complex issues. You work in a structured manner, have the ability to work independently and take responsibility, as well as a good ability to collaborate with different professional groups. Furthermore, you are flexible and solution-oriented.

Great emphasis will be placed on personal suitability.

Other

We may conduct interviews continuously throughout the application period.

Probationary employment may be applied.

Warm welcome with your application!

About Västra Götaland Region

The Västra Götaland Region exists for the people of Västra Götaland. We ensure that there is good healthcare for everyone. We work for sustainable development and growth, a good environment, improved public health, a rich cultural life, and good communications throughout Västra Götaland.

The Västra Götaland Region actively works to digitize more working methods. To be part of the digital transformation, you should have basic skills and be able to use digital tools and services. You can search for information, communicate, interact digitally, are risk-aware, and have the motivation to participate in development to learn new things.

The Västra Götaland Region places all permanent employees in a state of readiness.

If you want to know more about the Västra Götaland Region, you can visit our introduction for new employees at the link https://www.vgregion.se/introduktion (https://www.vgregion.se/introduktion). You can also read more in the presentation at https://mellanarkiv-offentlig.vgregion.se/alfresco/s/archive/stream/public/v1/source/available/sofia/rs4011-467070786-672/surrogate (https://mellanarkiv-offentlig.vgregion.se/alfresco/s/archive/stream/public/v1/source/available/sofia/rs4011-467070786-672/surrogate).

Application

The Västra Götaland Region prefers that you register your application via the recruitment system. If you as a candidate have questions about the advertised position or for specific and special reasons cannot register your information in a public system - contact the contact person for the respective ad.

To staffing, placement, and recruitment companies and to you who are a seller:

We kindly but firmly decline direct contact with staffing, placement, and recruitment companies as well as other external actors and sellers of additional job ads. The Västra Götaland Region has contracted agreements.