Health Information Specialists

Duties and Responsibilities:

Health Information Specialists obtain post and analyze medical, workload insurance information. They ensure that this information is properly recorded into medical records so practitioners can plan and evaluate health care provided to patients.

There are a variety of jobs in this field that include Registered Record Administrators, Accredited Record Technicians, and Certified Coding Specialists. Administrators coordinate the various information management responsibilities. Record technicians make sure medical records are accurate and coordinate. Coding specialists assign and post correct diagnosis.

Average Salary:

$20,000 - $25,000 (Coding Specialists)

$23,000 - $30,000 (Record Technicians) 

$30,000 - $40,000 (Record Administrators)

Educational Requirements:

Students should take high school courses in business, information management, science, math and English.

Coding specialists need a GED or high school diploma.

Accredited record technicians need to have an associate’s degree form a credited college program or from the American Health Information Management Association Independent Study Program.

Record administrators must complete a bachelor's degree program in the field and pass a certification examination.

I don’t think I’d like to be a health information specialist. It requires a lot of writing and that sounds boring. I don’t want to be sitting a desk filling papers.

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Health Information Specialist

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Duties and Responsibilities:

Health information specialists obtain, post, and analyze medical, workload, finance, and insurance data. They ensure that this information is properly recorded into medical records so practitioners can plan and evaluate health care provided to patients.

There are a variety of job specialties within this field including Registered Record Administrators, Accredited Record Technicians, and Certified Coding Specialists. Administrators coordinate the various information management responsibilities and supervise record technicians and coding specialists. Record technicians ensure medical records are accurate, coordinate reimbursement, and maintain disease registries for research. Coding specialists assign and post correct diagnose and procedure codes to records and report codes to insurance companies.

Health information specialists work in hospitals, clinics, insurance companies, physician offices, and many other medical settings.

Average Salary:

$20,000-$25,000 (Coding Specialists)

$23,000-$30,000 (Record Technicians)

$30,000-$40,000 (Record Administrators)

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