Health Information Specialist

Health Information Specialist

Duties and Responsibilities: Health Information Specialists obtain, post, and analyze medical, workload, finance, and insurance data.  They ensure that this information is properly recorded into medical records so practitioners can plan and evaluate health care needed to patients. 

Salary: $20,000 - $40,000 yearly.

Education: Students should take high school courses in business, information management, science, math, and English.

·         Coding specialists need to have a high school diploma or GED certificate. 

·         Accredited record technicians must earn an associate's degree from an accredited college program or from the American Health Information Management Association Independent Study Program.

·         Record administrators must get a bachelor's degree program in the field and pass a certification examination.

Answer: Do you think you would like to be a Health Information Specialist? Why? Why not?

Maybe, but not as a lifetime career. For about 5-15 years will be good to work in this job for me. 

Student Success Statement Aristotle

"Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all."
Aristole

REFLECTION: I agree, educating the brain is one thing but educating your heart is an other. You really need to take everything your learning and keep it with you. Its really important to keep all you learned because your going to need that in life.

Dental Laboratory Technician

                                                Dental Laboratory Technician

Duties and Responsibilities:

Dental laboratory technicians specialize in different areas of dental and orthodontic work. Their jobs usually include making and repairing dentures, crowns, and braces. They work in dental schools, commercial dental laboratories, hospitals, dental clinics, and for manufacturers of dental prostheses. Dental laboratory technicians:

À      Repair denture linings.

À      Choose and mount replacement teeth.

À      Construct denture frames.

À      Identify needed prostheses repairs.

À      Make and fix braces.

À      Cast plaster dental molds.

À      Clean and polish prostheses.

Average Salary: $22,000 - $33,000

Educational Requirements:

Dental laboratory technicians must have a high school diploma or GED certificate before starting dental laboratory training.

Dental laboratory technicians must attend a community college, vocational school, or dental school to learn their skills. Programs are usually two years in length.

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CPCC

                                                                     CPCC
Cytotechnologists are people that study cells. Also check if the person has cancer so they can try to prevent it somehow. We need more of those people around because its awesome to have those kind of people. Its an important job. But me personally I feel like I wouldn't like to be a Cytotechnologist because I feel like it wont suit me and I wont enjoy it.

Cytotechnologist

                                                                                Cytotechnologist

Duties and Responsibilities:

Cytology is the study of human body cells. Cytotechnogists are specially trained clinical technologists who study human body cells. They examine cells to identify changes that may indicate diseases like cancer.

Their duties include preparing microscope slides of cell samples, examining cell samples using microscopes, identifying abnormalities in shape, size, or color, using other automated lab equipment to perform tests, and analyzing report test results to physicians.

Cytotechnologist usually works in hospitals, clinics, or private laboratories. They also work in universities or for other researchers.

Average Salary: $30, 0000 $50,000

Educational Requirements:

Students should take the most challenging high school courses in science, math, and English.

Almost all cytotechnologists earn bachelors degrees in medical or clinical technology programs that include a year –long clinical internship in the field.

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Rehabilitation or Mental Health Counselors

                                Rehabilitation or Mental Health Counselors

Duties and Responsibilities:

Rehabilitation or mental health counselors work with the mentally, emotionally, and physically disabled. It is their job to help patients develop more faith in themselves. They work with patients to help them become self-sufficient and productive. Counselors often work closely with their patients’ doctors and family. Counselors may work in private practice, for schools,  industry, or in hospital or residential health care setting. Counselors often:

-Work with patients who abuse alcohol or are addicted to drugs.

-Interview and observe patients to determine problem areas.

-Conduct personality, aptitude, achievement, and psychological tests.

-Help patients find and keep jobs,

Average Salary: $25,000 - $45,000

Educational Requirements:

Students interested in becoming counselors should take a challenging high school curriculum.

A bachelor’s degree in education, psychology, or sociology is the minimum requirement for low level counseling jobs, but a master’s degree is required for most. To become licensed by a state, counselors must pass written and oral examinations and work for about two years in a supervised clinical setting.

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Educational Requirements Health Information Specialist Part 2

                                    Educational Requirements:Health Information Specialist Part 2

Students should take high school course in business, information management, science, math, and English.

Coding specialists must have a high school diploma or GED certificate. Training is usually conducted on the job, but classes are offered at technical schools and community colleges. To become certified, specialists must pass an examination.

Accredited record technicians must earn an associate’s degree from an accredited college program or from the American Health Information Management Association Independent Study Program. Additionally, they must pass a credentialing examination.

Record administrators must complete a bachelor’s degree program in the field and pass a certification examination.

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Clinical Technologist

Clinical Technologist

Clinical technologists perform more couples laboratory tests and procedures than technicians. They also supervise technicians, confirm their tests, and manage laboratory quality control programs.

Most clinical laboratory specialist work in hospitals , but they are also employed by private practices, medical groups, research laboratories, pharmaceutical companies, and universities.

Average Salary:

$20,000 -$28,000 (Clinical technologists)

Educational Requirements:

Students should take the most challenging high school courses in, science, math, English.

An associate’s degree in the field or completion of a specialized in-house training program is required to become a clinical laboratory technician.

A bachelor’s degree in the field is normally required to become a clinical technologist; however some employers accept an associate’s degree and extensive clinical experience as a substitute. Many technologists pursue additional graduate education or specialize training to advance their careers in clinical chemistry, blood banking, and microbiology.

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