Medical and Health Services Managers

Plan, direct, or coordinate medical and health services in hospitals, clinics, managed care organizations, public health agencies, or similar organizations.

Enterprising occupations frequently involve starting up and carrying out projects. These occupations can involve leading people and making many decisions. Sometimes they require risk taking and often deal with business.

Enterprising

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Social occupations frequently involve working with, communicating with, and teaching people. These occupations often involve helping or providing service to others.

Social

Conventional occupations frequently involve following set procedures and routines. These occupations can include working with data and details more than with ideas. Usually there is a clear line of authority to follow.

Conventional

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Investigative occupations frequently involve working with ideas, and require an extensive amount of thinking. These occupations can involve searching for facts and figuring out problems mentally.

Investigative

Realistic occupations frequently involve work activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions. They often deal with plants, animals, and real-world materials like wood, tools, and machinery. Many of the occupations require working outside, and do not involve a lot of paperwork or working closely with others.

Realistic

Artistic occupations frequently involve working with forms, designs and patterns. They often require self-expression and the work can be done without following a clear set of rules.

Artistic

Job Zone Five: Extensive Preparation Needed

Develop and maintain computerized record management systems to store and process data, such as personnel activities and information, and to produce reports.

Direct, supervise and evaluate work activities of medical, nursing, technical, clerical, service, maintenance, and other personnel.

Direct or conduct recruitment, hiring, and training of personnel.

Develop and implement organizational policies and procedures for the facility or medical unit.

Conduct and administer fiscal operations, including accounting, planning budgets, authorizing expenditures, establishing rates for services, and coordinating financial reporting.

Maintain awareness of advances in medicine, computerized diagnostic and treatment equipment, data processing technology, government regulations, health insurance changes, and financing options.

Plan, implement, and administer programs and services in a health care or medical facility, including personnel administration, training, and coordination of medical, nursing and physical plant staff.

Prepare activity reports to inform management of the status and implementation plans of programs, services, and quality initiatives.

Establish work schedules and assignments for staff, according to workload, space, and equipment availability.

Maintain communication between governing boards, medical staff, and department heads by attending board meetings and coordinating interdepartmental functioning.

Establish objectives and evaluative or operational criteria for units managed.

Review and analyze facility activities and data to aid planning and cash and risk management and to improve service utilization.

Manage change in integrated health care delivery systems, such as work restructuring, technological innovations, and shifts in the focus of care.

Develop instructional materials and conduct in-service and community-based educational programs.

Monitor the use of diagnostic services, inpatient beds, facilities, and staff to ensure effective use of resources and assess the need for additional staff, equipment, and services.

Inspect facilities and recommend building or equipment modifications to ensure emergency readiness and compliance to access, safety, and sanitation regulations.

Develop or expand and implement medical programs or health services that promote research, rehabilitation, and community health.

Consult with medical, business, and community groups to discuss service problems, respond to community needs, enhance public relations, coordinate activities and plans, and promote health programs.

Desktop computers

Laptop computers

Personal computers

Scanners

3DGrid HIPAA Checkup

AcuStaf

Adobe Systems Adobe Acrobat

Adobe Systems Adobe Flash

Allscripts Misys Healthcare Systems

Alteer Office

American Medical Association CodeManager

Apache Hadoop

Apache Maven

Apache Pig

API Healthcare ActiveStaffer

ArticSoft FileAssurity

Autodesk Revit

Bed Management Suite

Blackbaud The Raiser's Edge

Blackboard

CareCentric MestaMed

Cerner ProFile

Citrix

CliniTrend

ColorSoft AutoMatch

ConceptDraw

Contract management software

Current procedural terminology CPT software

Data entry software

Delphi Technology

Dental Common Access System DENCAS

DxCG RiskSmart

e-MDs Bill

e-MDs Chart

e-MDs DocMan

e-MDs Schedule

Electronic medical record EMR software

Emdeon HealthPro

Epic Systems

Expert Health Data Programming Vitalnet

Facebook

FileMaker Pro

Fund accounting software

GE Healthcare Centricity EMR

Geographic information system GIS software

Google AdWords

Google Sheets

Healthcare common procedure coding system HCPCS

Henry Schein Dentrix

Human resource management software HRMS

IBM Cognos Impromptu

IBM Domino

IBM Notes

IBM Power Systems software

IBM SPSS Statistics

Integrated development environment IDE software

Intuit QuickBooks

Inventory management software

Kodak Dental Systems Kodak SOFTDENT Practice management software PMS

LexisNexis

LinkedIn

Marketo Marketing Automation

McKesson Horizon Ambulatory Care

MEDENT

MedFORCE Technologies WorkFLOW

Medical condition coding software

Medical procedure coding software

MEDITECH Medical and Practice Management MPM Suite

MEDITECH software

Microsoft Access

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Exchange Server

Microsoft Office

Microsoft Outlook

Microsoft PowerPoint

Microsoft Project

Microsoft Publisher

Microsoft SharePoint

Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services

Microsoft Visio

Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Word

MicroStrategy

Minitab

Misys Healthcare Systems Misys Tiger

Nuance PaperPort Professional

Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition

Oracle Fusion Applications

Oracle Hyperion

Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne

Oracle PeopleSoft

Oracle PeopleSoft Financials

Oracle Primavera Enterprise Project Portfolio Management

Oracle Taleo

PCC EHR

PCC Pediatric Partner

Qlik Tech QlikView

Relative Values for Physicians

Sage 50 Accounting

Be aware of what YOU can do to make positive changes in your life and change for the better.  There is always room for improvement, but you have to be willing to work hard, and make sacrifices

There is no 'typical' day, each one brings different challenges, which is one of the reasons I love what I do.

Clinical Director

You will never make enough money helping others 

Beth Roudebush

Clinical Director

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Beth Roudebush

Clinical Director

Education

Career

Career Roadmap

My work combines:

My work combines:

Science

Education

Helping People

Day to Day

Recommended Education

My career is related to what I studied. I'd recommend the path I took:

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The Noise I Shed

From Society in General:

Challenges I Overcame

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