How do they match: Medical Secretaries and Administrative Assistants

  • File Clerk
  • Health Information Coder
  • Hospital Admissions Clerk
  • Hospital Unit Clerk
  • Medical Records Clerk
  • Medical Office Clerk
  • Unit Clerk
  • Ward Clerk

  • Perform secretarial duties using specific knowledge of medical terminology and hospital, clinic, or laboratory procedures. Duties may include scheduling appointments, billing patients, and compiling and recording medical charts, reports, and correspondence.

  • Compile and record medical charts, reports, or correspondence, using typewriter or personal computer.
  • Maintain medical records, technical library, or correspondence files.
  • Operate office equipment, such as voice mail messaging systems, and use word processing, spreadsheet, or other software applications to prepare reports, invoices, financial statements, letters, case histories, or medical records.
  • Perform bookkeeping duties, such as credits or collections, preparing and sending financial statements or bills, and keeping financial records.
  • Transcribe recorded messages or practitioners' diagnoses or recommendations into patients' medical records.
  • Transmit correspondence or medical records by mail, e-mail, or fax.

  • Answer telephones to direct calls or provide information.
  • Interview employees, customers, or others to collect information.
  • Maintain financial or account records.
  • Maintain medical records.
  • Relay information between personnel.
  • Send information, materials or documentation.
  • Transcribe spoken or written information.