• This position is responsible for concurrent review of inpatient medical records in order to identify opportunities for improving the quality of physician documentation • Facilitates modifications to clinical documentation through concurrent interaction with physicians (face-to-face and electronically) and other members of the health care team • The goal of this position is to achieve a complete medical record in order to support complete, accurate and timely coding • Communicates with physicians, case managers, coders, and other healthcare team members to facilitate comprehensive medical record documentation to reflect clinical treatment, decisions, and diagnoses for inpatients • Utilizes the hospital’s designated clinical documentation system to identify opportunities for physician and hospital outcomes • Provides or coordinates education to all internal customers related to compliance, coding, and clinical documentation issues and acts as a consultant to coders when additional information or documentation is needed to assign the correct DRG • Responsible for the day-to-day evaluation of documentation by the medical staff and healthcare team in accordance with the hospital’s designated clinical documentation system • Gathers and analyzes information pertinent to documentation findings and outcomes • Contributes to a positive working environment and performs other duties as assigned or directed to enhance the overall efforts of the organization • Develops physician education strategies to promote complete and accurate clinical documentation and correct negative trends • Identifies patterns, trends variances and opportunities to improve documentation review and process • Researches literature and stays abreast of CMS rules and regulations, incorporating changes to daily practice for overall documentation enhancement • Assists in the development and reporting of performance measures to the medical staff and other departments and prepares physician specific data information • Conferences with key physicians to review outcome information (including physician profile data if relevant) as it relates to documentation clarity, completeness, and correct DRG designation • Coaches physicians to improve their documentation so it more accurately reflects intensity of services and severity of illness • Documents conference and results • Attends various hospital service line meetings, reviewing outcome information, and educating physicians on service line specific improvement opportunities • Complies with HIPAA and Code of Conduct policies • Assists with special projects as needed • Demonstrates competency for individual performance and development in the following areas: Customer Service, Job Skills, Resource Management, Teamwork, and Innovation • Ensures safe care to patients, staff and visitors; adheres to all Memorial Hermann policies, procedures, and standards within budgetary specifications including time management, supply management, productivity and quality of service • Promotes individual professional growth and development by meeting requirements for mandatory/continuing education and skills competency; supports department-based goals which contribute to the success of the organization; serves as preceptor, mentor and resource to less experienced staff

• Develop regulatory documents for submission to regulatory agencies globally, in accordance with ICH and other global guidelines, standards and processes, and the client authoring standards, as applicable, in adherence with study/project timelines and corporate objectives. • Manage medical writing projects, including developing timelines (working with the study/project teams, as necessary) and communication with cross-functional team members to maintain awareness of review cycles and expectations. • Participate in cross-functional meetings to provide input regarding medical writing deliverables, timelines, and any process(es) needed for the completion of regulatory documents. • Review other documents associated with the assigned project(s) (eg, Protocols and Statistical Analysis Plans), as appropriate. • Participate in cross-functional process improvement initiatives. • Participate in defining and writing standard operating procedures and best practices for an efficient preparation of quality documents. • Manage internal and contract medical writing resources as required to ensure timely completion of assigned projects. • Mentor more junior medical writing staff.

• The Principal Medical Writer I is responsible for the development of clinical documents for submissions to regulatory authorities globally. • Provides strategic direction to cross-functional project teams with minimal oversight to ensure that clinical documents accurately and consistently present key data-driven clinical messages. • Writes or provides direction and leadership to other writers to ensure the timely delivery of high-quality documents that are scientifically rigorous, logically organized, and have accurate data presentation and interpretation. • Oversees the medical writing activities of multiple compounds and serves as lead writer for individual summary documents. • Manage medical writing projects, including developing timelines and communication with cross-functional team members to maintain awareness of review cycles and expectations. • Review other documents associated with the assigned project(s) as appropriate. • Participate in cross-functional process improvement initiatives.

• The Medical Writer supports client engagements and internal requests, projects, and business development efforts by doing the necessary research, data collection, analysis, and interpretation. • Development of value messages, dossiers, reports and other written deliverables, modeling, educational materials. • Conducting stakeholder and market access research; working with programming and design; and presenting to clients as needed. • Draft content in line with the outline/approach required, in an appropriate style for the deliverable. • Accurate markup references and implementation of directive changes with minimal supervision.