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Here you will find career-related information such as blogs, jobs, resources, courses, and events specific to Health Information Management topics to help you embrace your career and academic journey. You can explore SNHU’s Online Campus career resources all in one central space! You can search this page to find the information you need to make more meaningful and informed career decisions as you navigate your unique career goals!
What Can I Do With My Degree? Health Information Management
Welcome to the dynamic and evolving field of Health Information Management (HIM), where the intersection of healthcare, technology, and information comes together to shape the future of patient care. As a professional in HIM, you play a crucial role in ensuring the accuracy, security, and accessibility of health data, contributing to the efficiency and quality of healthcare delivery. Whether you are an experienced HIM specialist seeking new challenges or an aspiring individual eager to navigate the intersection of healthcare and technology, this industry offers a myriad of opportunities. From managing electronic health records to implementing innovative health information systems, HIM professionals are at the forefront of healthcare’s digital transformation. Embrace the opportunity to be a steward of health data, where your expertise becomes instrumental in optimizing healthcare processes and improving patient outcomes. Welcome to the forefront of Health Information Management, where your commitment to precision and technology merges seamlessly with the pursuit of advancing healthcare excellence. Your journey in shaping the future of health information begins here.
Health Information Management (HIM) students often focus on specific career-areas when exploring options, including:
- Revenue Cycle Management
- Privacy, Risk and Compliance
- Informatics
- Data Analytics
- Consumer HI
- Data Quality
Explore Career Paths
- Medical Biller: Responsible for the accurate and timely submission of medical claims to insurance companies and other payors.
- Patient Service Representative: Responsible for the patient facing administrative functions of the physician practice or other healthcare setting including but not limited to meeting and greeting patients, registration, scheduling of appointments, insurance verification, filing, cashiering and collections, screens and directs telephone calls.
- Community Health Worker: Work with patients who are identified as having non-clinical barriers to engaging in treatment plans and recommendations.
- Patient Navigator: Serve as liaison with other departments and will interface with internal and external agencies to include diverse levels of medical and non-medical personnel to ensure the optimal level of clinical coordination is achieved.
- Medical Records Clerk: Performs clerical functions related to ongoing department operations and the coordination of interdepartmental and intradepartmental service and communications.
- Clinical Data Specialist: Will abstract patient health information from multiple sources to curate an accurate and authentic representation of patient health histories for research purposes.
- Clinical Research Coordinator: Responsible for assisting the Investigator in accomplishing successful research trials.
- Medical Coder: Responsible for coding outpatient and/or inpatient records for the purpose of reimbursement, research, and education in compliance with federal, state and regulatory agencies’ guidelines using the most current taxonomic and classification systems.
- Clinical Document Improvement Specialist: Responsible to ensure that the quality of clinical documentation meets and exceeds all Federal, State, and Payor requirements within a variety of levels of care.
- Master Patient Index Specialist: Responsible for combining duplicate medical record numbers created within the MPI application in the EHR.They will be responsible for running duplicate reports within the EHR and working the report daily.
- Chargemaster Analyst: Responsible for the integrity of the CDM and various enterprise wide revenue results for all facility and professional services.
- Privacy Analyst: Manage various tasks that are necessary to ensure ongoing compliance with HIPAA Privacy and state privacy regulations as well as institutional policies.
- Revenue Cycle Trainer: Responsible for providing training, curriculum development, project organization and implementation, as well as quality assurance functions across the Revenue Cycle enterprise.
- Revenue Integrity Specialist: Maintains documentation regarding charge capture processes. Performs regular reviews of process adherence and identify missing charges
- Compliance Specialist: Under direct supervision of an experienced functional leader, this position oversees small to medium functional projects or phases(s) of a larger project within the compliance department.
- Compliance Manager: Compliance Manager will design, manage, and execute compliance projects/program across the system, diverse departments, and populations
- Release of Information Specialist: Retrieves and processes all medical records requests for Government Agencies, State Agencies, Insurance Companies, Court Order Subpoenas, Attorneys, Providers, Disability Services, Workman’s Compensation, Social Security Administration, and other requestors and internal organization projects as needed ensuring accuracy while providing customers with the highest quality product and customer service
- Privacy Officer: Oversees all ongoing activities related to the development, implementation, maintenance of, and adherence to the organization’s policies and procedures covering the privacy of, and access to, patient health information in compliance with federal and state laws and the healthcare organization’s information privacy practices.
- Clinical Systems Analyst: Manages enterprise system applications in the areas of ongoing user support/training, dictionary, maintenance, system enhancements, problem analysis, resolution, and troubleshooting.
- Health Informatic Specialist: Responsible for the design and use of informatics solutions and technology to support all areas of health care delivery, including, but not limited to, the direct provision of care, establishing effective administrative systems, managing, and delivering education experiences, enhancing lifelong learning, and supporting health care research
- Clinical Data Developer: Support complex data mining, operational reports for the electronic medical record and other clinical applications; design technical infrastructure and data mart logic related to various business process deliverables; and ensure that key dependencies are met.
- Health Data Analyst: Will gather, extract, analyze, and compile data needed to identify trends and patterns, then make recommendations for business actions.
- Health Information Management Director: Manages the compilation, processing, and maintenance of patient health information. Acts as a consultant on health data management, documentation improvement, medical record release of information, confidentiality, and data security issues
- Director of Revenue Cycle Management: Provides strategic leadership and guidance at the senior level in all areas of the organization’s Revenue Cycle functions to include Health Information Management, Financial Counseling, Insurance verification, Revenue Integrity, Coding, Patient Accounting, and Research Billing.
Day In The Life – HIM Professional Video Testimonials
Watch our series called “DAY IN THE LIFE OF AN HIM PROFESSIONAL” below and hear from our amazing employer partners. If you are serious about entering your field and growing your career, learn from these seasoned professionals!
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