OVERVIEW
What is a Health Information Systems Auditor?
A health information systems auditor is responsible for all aspects of systems auditing in a medical organization. Often working in tandem with other health information team members, auditors will create and deploy auditing processes that allow organizations to assess the efficiency of their operations. Health information systems auditors are primarily responsible for comprehensive reviews of existing information systems processes. They work to ensure that policy compliance results in correct project management, without resulting in lost time, revenue, resources, or quality of patient care.
RESPONSIBILITIES
What Does a Health Information Systems Auditor Do?
Health information systems auditors actively assess individual workflows to determine risks, identify potential benefits, and improve processes that improve lives. On a day-to-day basis, the role of a health information systems auditor might vary widely. The exact daily responsibilities of a health information systems auditor can include:
- Creating audit processes that identify areas where healthcare operations could be more efficient.
- Implementing audit processes across the organization.
- Teaching other healthcare staff members—and especially other health information team members—how to correctly implement audit processes to generate correct results.
- Assessing audit findings to identify opportunities for organizational improvement.
- Reporting audit findings to executive-level management or other appropriate medical staff.
- Researching new audit methods for even more efficient audit integration.
- Managing multiple audits at once, each at various stages of completion across the organization.
EDUCATION & BEST DEGREES
How Do I Become a Health Information Systems Auditor?
Before beginning a career as a health information systems auditor, interested students must first earn an undergraduate degree in health information management. In a health information management program, students will focus on medical terminology, healthcare systems, and the software that makes healthcare systems work. They will get technical skills as well as understand the important ethical and regulatory elements of health information. All of these courses work together to ensure a health information systems auditor is well equipped to succeed in their career.
Best Degrees for a Health Information Systems Auditor
Health & Nursing
Health Information Management – B.S.
A program designed for future leaders in HIM....
A program designed for future leaders in HIM.
- Time: 61% of grads earned this degree in 36 months or less.
- Tuition: $4,210 per 6-month term.
- Courses: 36 total courses in this program.
Skills for your résumé that you will learn in this program:
- Medical Terminology
- Healthcare System Applications
- Health Information Law and Regulations
- Healthcare Project Management
- Data Analytics and Information Governance
This CAHIIM-accredited program makes you eligible for the RHIA exam.
The best degree for a Health Information Systems Auditor is a bachelor of science in health information management. In fact, 92% of students who enroll in our program pass with their full accreditations and are ready to enter the healthcare workforce immediately, with the majority finishing their program in just 36 months.
How Much Does a Health Information Systems Auditor Make?
$63,861
The salary of a health information systems auditor averages $63,861. The top 10% of earners can make as much as $97,000, while the lowest 10% of earners take home roughly $41,000 per year.
What Is the Projected Job Growth?
6%
Employment for health information specialists is expected to grow 6% by 2028, a growth rate higher than the average across all occupations.
SKILLS
What Skills Does a Health Information Systems Auditor Need?
Health information systems auditor is one of the preferred career options for individuals who have obtained a health information management degree. Health information systems auditors use a defined skill set daily. These skills include:
- Audit-creation aptitude: The ability to create audit processes that will identify flaws, imperfections, or areas for improvement in current workflows and processes.
- Internal auditing proficiency: The ability to deploy custom-created audits for the explicit purpose of improving healthcare operations.
- Analytical thinking: The ability to interpret and draw conclusions from audits to benefit a healthcare organization.
- Audit-reporting aptitude: The ability to leverage a user-friendly reporting process that succinctly delivers high-level findings from each audit to necessary staff members and executives.
- Technological proficiency: The ability to understand and use any technology necessary for the audit process or optimal healthcare processes.
- Risk assessment proficiency: The ability to actively assess all parts of a situation for potential issues in light of potential benefits.
- Problem-solving: The ability to come up with creative solutions that find new angles to solve familiar problems in a healthcare environment.
- Interpersonal communication: The ability to communicate effectively with all health-information team members, managers, technicians, and executives.
These skills make for productive health information systems auditors, who can accurately assess a healthcare environment and identify opportunities for workflow improvement.
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