Medical information specialists are very important members of the health care team who work directly with physicians, nurses, and other health care providers. They are the patient data experts on which patient care practitioners rely. This is the perfect profession for individuals who are interested in working in the medical field, yet do not want to work directly in patient care.
Medical Information Specialist job prospects are projected to be very good. Employment of medical records and health information technicians is expected to grow much faster than average for all occupations through 2014 because of rapid growth in the number of medical tests, treatments, and procedures that will be increasingly scrutinized by health insurance companies, regulators, courts, and consumers. Also, technicians will be needed to go into patient information into computer databases to act in accordance with with Federal legislation mandating the use of electronic patient records. More information