Health Information Specialist

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 jobs within this field including record administrations, record technicians, and coding specialist. But they all basically do the same thing, which is to obtain, post, and analyze medical data.

Salary

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

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

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

Educational Requirements

If students want to be a health information specialist they should take high school courses in business, science, math, and English. Coding specialist just need a high school diploma or GED. To become certified they need to pass an examination. To be as accredited record technician you must earn a associates degree and also complete an examination to become certified.

Do you think you would like to be one?

I wouldn’t want to be an health information specialist because it seems boring and too repetitive for me.