Health Information Technology

The health information technician is a professional skilled in the clinical data analysis,reporting of health care data and provision of clinical data support to health care information systems operations.

The graduate health information technician generally works in the health information department of a hospital or corporate healthcare facility headquarters, ambulatory care facility, or other type of health care facility. Some of the functions are supervising within the health information department; compliance and risk management functions, coordinating flow of health information to all departments of the hospital; compiling statistics; analyzing health record data for electronic completeness and accuracy; coding and classifying diagnoses and procedures that impact facility reimbursement; assigning diagnosis-related groups (DRGs) or ambulatory payment classifications (APCs); operating a cancer registry; functioning as a privacy officer for the facility; preparing special studies and tabulating data for research; performing quality management and utilization management activities, and other performance improvement activities, and acting as an electronic health record coordinator assisting with system implementations and workflow operations.