Health Information Technologists and Medical Registrars
Apply knowledge of healthcare and information systems to assist in the design, development, and continued modification and analysis of computerized healthcare systems. Abstract, collect, and analyze treatment and followup information of patients.
- Median annual earnings
- $67,785
- Projected change
- +17.9%
- Typical education
- High school diploma or less
- Employment
- 41.97K jobs
50th percentile, United States
2025 to 2035
48.1% of the workforce
Growing to 49.5K by 2035
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The work
What health information technologists and medical registrars do
Tasks reported for this occupation, ordered by how often they come up in the role.
- Assign the patient to diagnosis-related groups (DRGs), using appropriate computer software.
- Compile medical care and census data for statistical reports on diseases treated, surgery performed, or use of hospital beds.
- Design databases to support healthcare applications, ensuring security, performance and reliability.
- Develop in-service educational materials.
- Evaluate and recommend upgrades or improvements to existing computerized healthcare systems.
- Facilitate and promote activities, such as lunches, seminars, or tours, to foster healthcare information privacy or security awareness within the organization.
- Identify, compile, abstract, and code patient data, using standard classification systems.
- Manage the department or supervise clerical workers, directing or controlling activities of personnel in the medical records department.
- Monitor changes in legislation and accreditation standards that affect information security or privacy in the computerized healthcare system.
- Plan, develop, maintain, or operate a variety of health record indexes or storage and retrieval systems to collect, classify, store, or analyze information.
- Prepare statistical reports, narrative reports, or graphic presentations of information, such as tumor registry data for use by hospital staff, researchers, or other users.
- Protect the security of medical records to ensure that confidentiality is maintained.
- Resolve or clarify codes or diagnoses with conflicting, missing, or unclear information by consulting with doctors or others or by participating in the coding team's regular meetings.
- Retrieve patient medical records for physicians, technicians, or other medical personnel.
- Train medical records staff.
- Write or maintain archived procedures, procedural codes, or queries for applications.
Pay and outlook
What the job pays and where it is heading
Annual earnings range
Reported earnings by percentile, United States
- 10th percentile
- $38,022
- 25th percentile
- $47,755
- 50th percentile
- $67,785
- 75th percentile
- $97,257
- 90th percentile
- $125,094
The gold marker shows the median. Half earn more than $67,785 and half earn less.
Employment outlook
2025 to 2035 projection
7,530 more positions over the decade, before replacement hiring.
Preparation
Education levels
What people currently working in the career hold. These are not entry requirements.
- High school diploma or less
- 48.1%
- Some college
- 20.6%
- Associate degree
- 19.9%
- Certificate
- 10.9%
- Bachelor's degree
- 0.5%
Skills
Skills employers ask for
Technical skills appearing most often in job postings for this occupation.
How the work gets done
Core competencies
Broad capabilities associated with strong performance in this occupation.
In the market
Job titles and employers
Recent job postings in United StatesCommon job titles
- 01Health Information Specialists3,116 postings
- 02Health Information Management Technicians504 postings
- 03Health Information Management Specialists346 postings
- 04Health Information Technicians271 postings
- 05Medical Records Clerks220 postings
- 06Health Information Management Managers177 postings
- 07Medical Data Entry Specialists167 postings
- 08Cancer Registrars162 postings
- 09Medical Records Technicians141 postings
- 10Medical Information Specialists131 postings
- 11Certified Cancer Registrars129 postings
- 12Release of Information Specialists126 postings
- 13Forms Specialists112 postings
- 14Health Records Technicians94 postings
- 15Health Information Management Clerks77 postings
- 16CPC Coders72 postings
- 17Data Integrity Specialists71 postings
- 18Health Information Management Analysts69 postings
- 19Informatics Specialists68 postings
- 20Health Records Specialists66 postings
Top employers
- 01Datavant3,039 postings
- 02Intermountain Health171 postings
- 03Sharecare169 postings
- 04Aya Healthcare107 postings
- 05Albany Medical Center69 postings
- 06Norton Healthcare63 postings
- 07Centurion Health62 postings
- 08Good Samaritan Society58 postings
- 09Fujifilm53 postings
- 10Danaher51 postings
- 11Trinity Health46 postings
- 12Adventist Health40 postings
- 13State of Florida36 postings
- 14State of California35 postings
- 15Banner Health30 postings
- 16Cedars-Sinai27 postings
- 17HCA Healthcare26 postings
- 18AdventHealth24 postings
- 19Chas Health24 postings
- 20UCHealth (Colorado)24 postings
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