Health Information Technology

The Associate of Applied Science in Health Information Technology (HIT) degree prepares students to be job ready to work in physicians' practices, health facilities, pharmaceutical and insurance companies, law offices, and federal and state governmental agencies. Job duties includes organizing and managing medical records, analyzing and evaluating health records that comply with health information standards and regulations; billing, coding symptoms, diseases, operations, procedures, and other therapies for maximum reimbursement; ensuring that health information is complete and available to legitimate users while protecting patient privacy and maintaining information security; and, maintaining and utilizing a variety of health record indexes and storage and retrieval systems. Qualified professionals often finds jobs quickly in this high-demand field 

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College:  Dona Ana Community Colleges Online Program Credits: 61-62 Program Length: 2-4 years Cost Per Credit Hour: NMSU Community College Rates	Health Information Techonology     Admissions	NMSU is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission  HLC website  HLC   phone: 800-621-7440	Name: Samantarai Yrigoyen Title: Student Program Coodinator Phone: 575 646-3121 - 800 662-6678 Email: online@nmsu.edu