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# Competences — medical records clerk
Source: ESCO v1.2.1 occupation-skill relations (http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/14eb2c85-fce5-40b6-bcd0-46ac99994b0d).
## Essential
- **adhere to organisational guidelines** (skill/competence)
- **administrative tasks in a medical environment** (knowledge)
- **apply organisational techniques** (skill/competence)
- **archive healthcare users' records** (skill/competence)
- **clinical coding** (knowledge)
- **collect healthcare user's general data** (skill/competence)
- **collect statistics on medical records** (skill/competence)
- **comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice** (skill/competence)
- **data storage** (knowledge)
- **database** (knowledge)
- **deliver case notes** (skill/competence)
- **display medical problems** (skill/competence)
- **document management** (knowledge)
- **follow clinical guidelines** (skill/competence)
- **health care legislation** (knowledge)
- **health care system** (knowledge)
- **health records management** (knowledge)
- **identify patients' medical records** (skill/competence)
- **maintain healthcare user data confidentiality** (skill/competence)
- **manage digital archives** (skill/competence)
- **manage healthcare users' data** (skill/competence)
- **medical informatics** (knowledge)
- **medical terminology** (knowledge)
- **perform backups** (skill/competence)
- **perform clinical coding procedures** (skill/competence)
- **process data** (skill/competence)
- **professional documentation in health care** (knowledge)
- **type on electronic devices** (skill/competence)
- **use electronic health records management system** (skill/competence)
- **work in multidisciplinary health teams** (skill/competence)
## Optional
- answer patients' questions (skill/competence)
- communicate in foreign languages with health service providers (skill/competence)
- communicate in healthcare (skill/competence)
- communicate with customers (skill/competence)
- customer service (knowledge)
- handle paperwork (skill/competence)
- manage digital documents (skill/competence)
- medical studies (knowledge)
- participate in medical records' auditing activities (skill/competence)
- pharmacology (knowledge)
- review patient's medical data (skill/competence)
- send samples to laboratory (skill/competence)
- transfer medical information (skill/competence)
- use communication techniques (skill/competence)
- use databases (skill/competence)
- work in a multicultural environment in health care (skill/competence)
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## Market evidence (job-ad analysis, 32 ads, as of 2026-07-17)
Share of analyzed job ads mentioning the item (threshold ≥ 20 %). Source: JSearch/Adzuna APIs.
### Hard skills
- data entry — **31 %**
### Methods
- HIPAA compliance — **31 %**
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