Medical Records and Health Info Technician

Welcome to The 2011 Hot Jobs Guide

• Why It’s Hot: Although lower than the job growth for medical and dental assistant, medical records and health info technician jobs are expected to grow by a robust 20% by 2018. As the number of medical tests and procedures conducted by healthcare providers continues to grow, there is increase demand for the services of medical records professionals. This is certainly a career that can provide stability and steady

employment.

• What You’ll Do: Medical records technicians and health information technicians are the professionals responsible for ensuring patients’ charts are accurate and complete. Traditionally, patients’ charts have been paper records. Initiatives in recently enacted health legislation, however, call for the digitization of all medical information over the next ten years. Medical records technicians and health information technicians will be at the forefront of this transformation, organizing and verifying the individual patients records that will become the basis for a sophisticated electronic medical database and registry. The medical records technician is responsible for ensuring that all the information entered into the electronic health record is accurate and complete. The health information technician is also responsible for the maintenance and upkeep of the electronic records database. Additionally, the health information technician is responsible for the security of his or her institution’s electronic database, and for analyzing electronic data that may give insight into patterns of disease and treatment outcomes, when called upon to do so.

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