Leading a Health Records Department

Plan filing and retention, supervise staff, and prepare your department for an inspection.

  • Advanced
  • About 20 hours of study
  • 15 CEU hours
  • Certificate on completion

Taught by Olumide Balogun · 1 learner enrolled

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What is inside

3 modules, 7 lessons, 2h 38m of material.

  • Module 1 Running the department 3 lessons · 1h 4m

    Workflow, staffing and the daily rhythm.

    • A week in a records department Preview Video 17 min
    • Supervising staff without becoming the bottleneck Video 19 min
    • Handling a retrieval backlog Exercise 28 min
  • Module 2 Filing and retention 2 lessons · 34 min

    Where records live and for how long.

    • Numbering and filing systems compared Video 18 min
    • Building a retention schedule Reading 16 min
  • Module 3 Inspection and improvement 2 lessons · 1h

    Preparing, and using what you find.

    • What an inspector looks at first Video 15 min
    • Run a departmental self-audit Lab 45 min

The lesson times add up to 2h 38m of material, while the course is listed as about 20 hours. The larger figure includes the exercises, reading and practice you do yourself, which is where most of the learning happens.

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