Health Information Technician Essay

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A HIT (Health Information technician) Is someone who deals with computers and stories

Patient information and also share information to doctors and insurance companies. One of the

main job is to keep all information on patients organized and up to date. Management is the

best way to describe this profession being able to manage nurses to make sure the right data

and coding on a patient is correct. One wrong information can make a lot of trouble for

patients.

The requirements for HIT is an associates degree or a certification. The main

education or certification that is needed is in billing and coding and something that someone

has to know how to use is Microsoft excel. Microsoft excel is a program that doctors use the

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Also to be able to inform doctor on patient. Third is organization, in this

Profession “accuracy is the most important skill you’ll need to be a HIT professional” (Xu,2013,

para.4). Fourth is writing, being able to write emails and sending letter to doctor, nurses, and

insurance companies is a needed skill so you don’t seem unprofessional and making sure to get

your point across. And finally is problem solving, being able to fix computer problems that you

or other nurses or doctors may have. Also be able to solve patient records that could effect

patients from being ineligible for claim you may have to figure why and make sure nothing put

in wrong or that there wasn’t a code put in wrong. There aren’t really much that I have learn it

more of there is a lot I didn’t know and need to learn and practice. I need to learn how to write

and get out of the habit of writing the way I talk. I need to widen my vocabulary and learn

different formatting for different emails and letters. And learn how to get my point across

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