Health Information Technician
Michael Crespo
Journey Career Paper
Health Information Technician
The role and responsibilities of a Health Information Technician (HIT) also known as a Medical Records Technician include maintaining the medical information system of a healthcare facility in a manner consistent with medical, administrative, ethical, legal, and regulatory requirements. Responsibilities include organizing and coding patient records, recording information on patient records, the gathering of statistical and research data, monitoring information to ensure confidentiality and medical coding for billing purposes. Technicians communicate on a regular basis with physicians and other healthcare professionals to obtain information and clarify diagnosis. This is one of the only fields in the healthcare system that you will not have contact with patients. You will work in an office environment and typically work a forty hour week and if in a twenty four hour facility, some nights and weekends. This job was brought up to me by my dad as one of his friends currently works in this and it sounded interesting to me, so I further researched it.
An associate degree is required to pursue a career as a Health Information Technician. As part of your educational training, some of the classes that will be needed include human anatomy and physiology, medical classification systems, medical terminology, concepts of disease and legal aspects of are required as the job moves toward using computers as its major form of storing information. Two other important training aspects that are required are, experience in supervising other personnel and experience in a health care clinic. This training program is usually offered in community colleges for the length of two years. The two year program is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation for Health Informatics and Information Management Education (CAHIM). At the end of your schooling, students then go on to an externship, so that they can receive hands on
Journey Career Paper
Health Information Technician
The role and responsibilities of a Health Information Technician (HIT) also known as a Medical Records Technician include maintaining the medical information system of a healthcare facility in a manner consistent with medical, administrative, ethical, legal, and regulatory requirements. Responsibilities include organizing and coding patient records, recording information on patient records, the gathering of statistical and research data, monitoring information to ensure confidentiality and medical coding for billing purposes. Technicians communicate on a regular basis with physicians and other healthcare professionals to obtain information and clarify diagnosis. This is one of the only fields in the healthcare system that you will not have contact with patients. You will work in an office environment and typically work a forty hour week and if in a twenty four hour facility, some nights and weekends. This job was brought up to me by my dad as one of his friends currently works in this and it sounded interesting to me, so I further researched it.
An associate degree is required to pursue a career as a Health Information Technician. As part of your educational training, some of the classes that will be needed include human anatomy and physiology, medical classification systems, medical terminology, concepts of disease and legal aspects of are required as the job moves toward using computers as its major form of storing information. Two other important training aspects that are required are, experience in supervising other personnel and experience in a health care clinic. This training program is usually offered in community colleges for the length of two years. The two year program is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation for Health Informatics and Information Management Education (CAHIM). At the end of your schooling, students then go on to an externship, so that they can receive hands on
Cited: http://www.bls.gov: Bureau of Labor and Statistics http://www.cahim.org: The Commission on Accreditation for Health Informatics and Information Management http://flahec.org/hlthcareers/infotech.HTM: Florida Health Careers http://www.allhealthcaredegrees.com/him_rhit.htm: All Health Care Degrees http://careers.stateuniversity.com/pages/456/Medi