As the need for health care expands, so does the need to collect, codify, analyze and manage health data. Whether used to determine trends, improve efficiency, measure health care quality or facilitate reimbursement, accurate and organized health data is crucial to effective health care systems. Health data management and the information technology that supports health care record keeping are major components in the growing health information technology discipline. Professionals in this field play a key role in collecting, analyzing, maintaining and storing data generated and used by health care providers. Those in the field must be proficient in managing health care information in electronic and paper formats, ensuring the quality and privacy of data, and managing systems used to support these functions. By analyzing health data and assigning standard codes for patient diagnoses and subsequent procedures, health information professionals facilitate vital processes such as quality analysis and reimbursement. They may also lead compliance efforts and help implement health information privacy regulations.

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