Health Information Specialist

              Health Information Specialist

Duties and Responsibilities:

                   Health information specialist obtain, post, and investigate medical, workload, finance, and insurance data. They make sure that the information is properly put down into the medical records so that practitioners can plan and give help care to the patients.

         There are a lot of job specialties within this job including Registered record administrators, Accredited record technicians, and Certified Coding Specialist.

Health information specialist work in hospitals, clinics, insurance companies, physician offices, and any other medical place.

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, math, science, and English. Coding specialist must have a high school diploma or a GED certificate. The training it takes is taught while doing the job but classes are offered at community colleges. To become a cerfified specialist they must pass an examination.

Accredited record technicians must have an associates degree from an accredited college program or from the American Health Information Management Association Independent Study Program. They must also pass an examintation.

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

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Answer: No I wouldn’t like to be a Health information specialist because it seems like hard work.