Being a versatile individual at work is an obligation possessed by Medical Record and Information professionals. Prapti Handayani, the Head of the Medical Recorders at Bhayangkara Hospital in Central Java, is among those Medical Record professionals.

Prapti embarked on her career back in 2000 upon graduating from the Department of Diploma Medical Records and Information at Universitas Dian Nuswantoro (Udinus). At that time, she worked in the Medicine and Health sector at Central Java Police Department. Ultimately, Prapti was asked to work as a medical record staff at Bhayangkara Hospital. “Back then, there was only one medical recorder at that hospital. Thus, I was asked to assist there, and eventually, I was appointed as the Head of Medical Recorders,” she claimed.

This lack of medical record professionals motivated her to be spry to do all the work by herself. In the end, the number of medical record professionals gradually increased, and there are sixteen medical record professionals in the Bhayangkara Hospital today.

According to Prapti, medical record professionals play an important role in the medical realm. This field of expertise arguably serves as the mothership of every information required in a hospital. “If one were to need particular data, they could ask the Information System Management and the medical recorders,” she uttered.

Prapti stated that it was essential to learn how to assemble and check the filing process of the inpatients, as well as coding or converting disease diagnoses from regular words into the form of code to simplify the data analyzing process. Additionally, arranging the medical record result files writing reports, setting statistics, and designing forms for patients are also responsibilities a medical record professional must carry.

In the current pandemic times, medical recorders are pushed to work even harder as they must collect data on COVID-19 patients, which changes dynamically every day. “The drastic increase of COVID-19 cases pushes us to regularly update the data,” Prapti shared.

As an alumna of the Diploma Medical Record and Information Study Program at Udinus, Prapti encouraged the students in that department to study diligently regardless of the fact that they would not implement everything they learned on campus in the industry. She also hoped that Udinus could prioritize students’ discipline, activeness, and collaboration. (Humas Udinus/Almira. Foto: Dok. Pribadi)

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Prapti Handayani – Alumni RMIK Fakultas Kesehatan Udinus