Health Information Technician

Health Information Technicians play a crucial role in organizing and managing health information data to ensure its quality, accuracy, accessibility, and security. They work with both paper files and electronic systems, utilizing various classification systems to code and categorize patient information for insurance reimbursement, databases, and registries. Additionally, they compile, process, and maintain medical records in compliance with medical, administrative, ethical, legal, and regulatory requirements. Their responsibilities include reviewing patient records, organizing clinical data, tracking patient outcomes, assigning clinical codes, recording data electronically, and maintaining patient confidentiality. General Responsibilities: 1. Review patients' records for timeliness, completeness, accuracy, and appropriateness of data 2. Organize and maintain data for clinical databases and registries 3. Track patient outcomes for quality assessment 4. Use classification software to assign clinical codes for insurance reimbursement and data analysis 5. Electronically record data for collection, storage, analysis, retrieval, and reporting 6. Maintain confidentiality of patients' records 7. Identify, compile, abstract, and code patient data using standard classification systems 8. Resolve/clarify codes and diagnoses with conflicting, missing, or unclear information by consulting with doctors or others to obtain additional information and participating in coding team meetings