HIM Data Integrity Analyst - Remote - UHealth at SoLé Mia

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The University of Miami UHealth at SoLé Mia opening September 2025, will bring high-quality academic medicine to North Miami, Aventura, and surrounding communities. Our expert team of physicians and staff will represent a wide range of specialties, including NCI–designated Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center and Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, the number one eye hospital in the nation. UHealth at SoLé Mia will also deliver the latest in urologic treatments from the renowned Desai Sethi Urology Institute as well as top-notch care from UHealth’s nationally ranked neurology and neurosurgery programs.

The University of Miami/UHealth Health Information Management (HIM) - UHealth SoLé Mia has an exciting opportunity for a full-time HIM Data Integrity Analyst (H) to work remotely. 

CORE JOB FUNCTIONS                                                                                                          

• Uses current best practice and policy guidance to implement appropriate and accurate patient identification and matching practices.

• Identifies points in patient identification and data collection processes where patients and consumers input health information contributing to the accuracy, validity, and currency of electronic medical record information (e.g., kiosk and patient portals/apps, questionnaires, documentation uploads).

• Applies guidance and best practices for the collection and management of patient demographic data such as name, sex, gender, date of birth, and addresses for enhanced patient matching for patient services initiated though digital front door interactions such as patient portals, patient created records, patient generated attachments/photos and self-scheduling, understanding their impact on patient matching.

• Uses and understands algorithms (basic, intermediate, advanced, probabilistic) within the master patient index (MPI) that identify potential duplicate records to apply best practice solutions for patient matching.

• Applies terminology used in MPI data management (e.g., false positive, false negative, algorithm, match weight, interface engine, HL7/FHIR, etc.).

• Analyzes key demographic data points and collection issues, including common misidentification medical record data trends (e.g., twins, siblings, parent/child, common names, minorities).

• Applies MPI metrics (e.g., duplicate rate, match rate, false positive rate, false negative rate, etc.).

• Recognizes the steps associated with master patient index (MPI) data clean-up projects and systemic impacts from a large-scale clean-up effort.

• Establishes practices that ensure data quality by minimizing errors and opportunities for fraud, allowing patients access to correct data, and implementing corrective and preventive actions when errors are identified.

• Understands practices that ensure interoperability within and across healthcare systems to ensure patient safety and care including specifying parameters for the catalog of incoming interfaces to the MPI and initiatives that support population health.

• Understands the strategic impact on the use of biometrics for patient identification practices and technical strategies that can be used to accurately match a patient with their data (e.g., bar code scanning, advanced algorithms to auto match, and artificial intelligence for patient and referential matching).

• Complies with hospital requirements and federal regulations such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH), the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), the 21st Century CURES Act, and state regulations.  Works closely with the HIPAA Privacy Office to ensure HIPAA compliance.   Applies expert knowledge of state regulations with consideration of preemption as appropriate.

• Adheres to University and unit-level policies and procedures and safeguards University assets.

This list of duties and responsibilities is not intended to be all-inclusive and may be expanded to include other duties or responsibilities as necessary.

CORE QUALIFICATIONS                                                                                                         

• Bachelor’s Degree in a related field

• Minimum of 1 year of relevant experience

• accurately and with attention to detail.

• Ability to analyze, organize and prioritize work under pressure while meeting deadlines.

• Ability to process and manage confidential information with discretion.

• Ability to work independently and/or in a collaborative environment

Any relevant education, certifications and/or work experience may be considered.

The University of Miami offers competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, tuition remission and more.

UHealth-University of Miami Health System, South Florida's only university-based health system, provides leading-edge patient care powered by the ground breaking research and medical education at the Miller School of Medicine. As an academic medical center, we are proud to serve South Florida, Latin America and the Caribbean. Our physicians represent more than 100 specialties and sub-specialties, and have more than one million patient encounters each year. Our tradition of excellence has earned worldwide recognition for outstanding teaching, research and patient care. We're the challenge you've been looking for.

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