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 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 diagnosis and procedure codes to records and report codes to insurance companies.

    Salary: $20,000 - $25,000 (Coding Specialists)  
                 $23,000 - $30,000 (Record Technicians)  
                 $30,000 - $40,000 (Record Administrators)

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

No, because they make little money and it’s not something I would like to do in the future. It’s not very interesting to me.