Healthcare data, made clean, useful, and compliant — that's the work. You analyze records, build reports, and help organizations make sense of clinical information, where data and patient care intersect.
Analyzing health data, building reports and dashboards, and ensuring data quality and compliance fill the day, mostly at a desk in clinical systems. You collaborate with HIM staff, clinicians, and administrators. Accuracy is everything — decisions and compliance ride on clean data.
The challenge is healthcare's complex coding, privacy rules, and messy data. Regulations like HIPAA shape everything, and the work demands both analytical and clinical literacy. Tools and scope vary by organization, so the role looks different from place to place.
It suits someone detail-oriented, analytical, and comfortable in regulated environments. If you want creative latitude or fast-moving work, the structure can feel confining. But if making sense of data that improves care appeals, the role tends to satisfy quietly, report after report.
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View all Technology roles →Healthcare data, made clean, useful, and compliant — that's the work. You analyze records, build reports, and help organizations make sense of clinical information, where data and patient care intersect.
Median pay for a Health Information Management Data Analyst (HIM Data Analyst) is about $101K nationally, with the field ranging roughly from $60K to $174K depending on experience, employer, and metro (BLS).
Core skills for this role include Reading Comprehension, Critical Thinking, Active Listening, Complex Problem Solving, and Judgment and Decision Making.
Most people in this role hold a bachelor's degree.
Employment in this field is projected to grow about 8.8% through 2034, with roughly 893,900 people working in it today (BLS).
Closely related roles include Clinical Data Management Director (CDM Director), Environmental Program Manager, and Project Manager.
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