HSA Internship

On Tuesday may 26th already the second week of the summer semester I completed six hours of volunteer work at the Brevard County Health Department clinic in Melbourne. This was the first day that I was able to start working on the computer based medical records. The computer system holds medical records for any person who has ever had an appointment with any of the Brevard County Health Department clinics even when they missed their appointment. This allows the medical records department to retrieve a patient’s medical information even if they didn’t go to that specific clinic location.

This also helps the medical records department when they are trying to locate a patient’s chart. When I am looking for a patients chart and I can’t locate it with in the files I can then look it up on the computer based medical records. This allows me to see if they were ever a patient at our clinic, when their last visit was and of great importance what they have been seen for at the clinic. If the patient was only seen at the clinic for vaccinations they would most likely not have a medical record on file. The date of the patient’s last visit is also important because the files of patients who haven’t been seen in the clinic since 2007 are stored in the back filing room. The computer based medical records system allows you to wither the patient should have a record on file and where to find it if they do.