Health Information Specialist

Duties and Responsibilities:

Health information specialist obtain, analyze, record, medical, and insurance data. They insure that this information is recorded properly into medical records so that practitioners can plan and evaluate the patients’ health care.

There are different positions within this career such as Registered Record Administrators, Accredited Record Technicians, and Certified Coding Specialists. The administrator is in charge of looking over the technicians and coding specialist. Record technicians ensure that medical records are accurate. While coding specialist assign and post correct diagnosis and procedure codes to records and report codes to insurance companies.

Health information Specialist 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)

Educational Requirements: Students should take courses in English, math, science, and business and information management. Coding specialist must have a high school diploma, or GED, you can get trained at the job. Registered record administrators must have an associate’s degree, and pass an examination Record administrator must complete a bachelor's degree program in the field and pass a certification examination.

I would like to be a health information specialist, because I like keeping things organized and I can still help families get good health insurance.

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