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Medical records clerk

Latest available data: December 2025 (includes accumulated data from the past 12 months)

Other denominations:
Clerical officer Clinical records administrator Health records assistant Health records clerk Health records staff member Medical note summariser Medical records assistant Medical records clerk Medical records filing clerk Medical records officer Medical records staff member Patients records assistant

Medical records clerks organise, keep up-to-date and archive patients` records for medical staff availability. They transfer medical information from a patient’s paper records to an electronic template.

Tasks

Tasks include -
(a) Planning, developing, maintaining and operating a variety of health record indexes and storage and retrieval systems to collect, classify, store and analyse information;
(b) Transcribing, compiling and processing patient medical records, admission and discharge documents and other medical reports into records-keeping systems to provide data for patient monitoring and referral, epidemiological monitoring, research, billing, cost control and care improvement;
(c) Reviewing records for completeness, accuracy and compliance with regulations;
(d) Translating narrative descriptions and numeric information from medical records and other documents on health services delivery into codes associated with standard classification systems;
(e) Protecting the security of medical records to ensure that confidentiality is maintained and releasing information to authorized persons and agencies in accordance with regulations;
(f) Supervising clerical and administrative workers involved in the maintenance of medical records.

Knowledge

  • Database and network design and administration
  • Secretarial and office work
  • Medicine
  • Work skills
  • Medical diagnostic and treatment technology

Digital competencies

  • Complying with operational procedures
  • Performing general clerical and administrative tasks
  • Planning events and programmes
  • Entering and transforming information
  • Communicating with colleagues and clients

Digital competencies

  • Managing, gathering and storing digital data
  • Protecting ict devices

Personal competencies

  • Working efficiently
  • Collaborating in teams and networks
  • Processing information, ideas and concepts
  • Following ethical code of conduct

Professional groups of the occupation

Technicians and associate professionals

Health associate professionals

Other health associate professionals

Medical records and health information technicians

Other occupations of the professional group

Related training

Higher education
  • Bioinformatics Bachelor
Vocational training
  • Health Documentation and Administration HVET
  • Health documentation and administration, professional profile data management HVET

Legend by training level:

Bachelor's degree and Master's degree
HVET: Higher Vocational Education and Training, IVET: Initial Vocational Education and Training, IQP: Initial Qualification Programme
Certificates of professionalism 1, 2, or 3

Do you want to know what the hiring rate for this occupation is in the market?

Contracts and job seekers in the last year in Barcelonès

Medical records and health information technicians

71

Number of contracts in Barcelonès

56,80%

Percentage of contracts in Catalonia

-11,25% Interannual variation of contracts in Barcelonès

38,03%

Permanent contracts over total contracts in Barcelonès

15,49%

Part-time contracts

1,69% Turnover index

70

Average of job seekers in Barcelonès

12%

Interannual variation of job seekers in Barcelonès

Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia

The market for this profile is hiring

Contracts in u00e8 over the past year by sex and age

Contracts by gender in Barcelonès.

Health associate professionals

28%

72%

Men
Women

Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia

Contracts by age groups.

Health associate professionals

Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia

What vacancies are published in the professional family?

Vacancies published by professional family and type of contract in Barcelonès over the past year

Other health associate professionals

Occupation Vacancies Permanent contracts

Data source: Data generated from the analysis of Lightcast data and the Observatory of Work and Productive Model of the Government of Catalonia.

What experience is required for the vacancies? Which sectors are looking for this occupation?

Medical records and health information technicians

No experience
9%
Less than 1 year
24%
Between 1 and 2 years
16%
Between 2 and 4 years
28%
Between 4 and 8 years
10%
More than 8 years
13%
Administrative and support service activities
30%
Professional, scientific and techinical activities
16%
Information and communication
9%
Education
9%
Human health and social work activities
8%
Others
28%

Data source: Own elaboration based on the data of vacancies extracted by Lightcast.

The vacancies published are for working in:

Job vacancies posted by county

Data source: Own elaboration based on the data of vacancies extracted by Lightcast.