Health Information Specialist

Duties and responsibilities:

A health information specialist review patients’ records for timeliness, completeness, accuracy, and appropriate data, organize and maintain data for clinical databases and registries, track patient outcomes for quality assessments, use classification software to assign clinical codes for reimbursement and data analysis and protect patients’ health information for confidentiality, authorized access for treatment, and data security.

Salary: $34,160-$40,380 a year

Education:

·       Postsecondary certificate

·        Associate’s degree in health information

·       Professional certification

·       Health information technology programs

 I would not like to be a health information specialist because I do not want to stay and organize files almost all day.