健康信息专业人员负责维护健康信息系统的组成部分，使其与医疗保健提供系统的医疗，法律，认证和法规要求保持一致。健康信息专业人员维护，汇编和报告用于报销，设施规划，市场营销，风险管理，利用率管理，质量评估和研究的健康信息数据，使用适当的分类系统对临床数据进行摘要和编码，并根据标准分析健康记录。
The Health Information professional is responsible for maintaining components of health information systems consistent with the medical, legal, accreditation and regulatory requirements of the health care delivery system. The health information professional maintains, compiles and reports health information data for reimbursement, facility planning, marketing, risk management, utilization management, quality assessment and research; abstracts and codes clinical data using appropriate classification systems; and analyzes health records according to standards. Maintain components of health information systems consistent with the medical, legal, accreditation, and regulatory requirements of the health care delivery system. Maintain, compile, and report health information data for reimbursement, facility planning, marketing, risk management, utilization management, quality assessment, and research as well as to abstract and code clinical data using appropriate classification systems. Analyze health records according to federal, state, and accrediting body standards.