health information specialist

Health information specialist

Duties & 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. 

Salary: 20,000-25,000 (coding specialist)

              23,000-30,000 (record technicians)

              30,000-40,000 (record administrators)

Education: students should have taken high school courses in business, information managements, science, math, and English. Coding Specialist must have a high school diploma or a GED certificate.  Accredited record technicians must earn a degree from accredited college program from the American Health Information Management Association Independent Study Program. To be a record administrator you must complete a bachelor’s degree program in the field and pass a certification examination