You must meet one of the following requirements:
- You must be currently certified by the American Health Information Management Association as a Registered Health Information Administrator (RHIA); OR
- You must be currently certified by the American Health Information Management Association as a Registered Health Information Technician (RHIT) AND have one year of full-time professional (post-RHIT) health information management experience*.
- *For purposes of this examination, professional health information management experience must include: reviewing medical records with physicians, coding and indexing diseases and operative procedures, compiling statistics required for hospital service analysis, and responsibility for all technical aspects of the implementation of a facility health information management program.
As a Health Information Management Technician 2, you would supervise Health Information Management Technicians 1 and other support staff; and act as assistant to a Health Information Management Administrator in the following areas: staff assignments, medical records review, training, interpretation of policy and procedure, problem solving, staff evaluation, medical records reports, and adherence to medical records accreditation standards.