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Health information technician resume examples from 2026

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Updated March 26, 2025
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How to write a health information technician resume

Craft a resume summary statement

Your resume summary sums up your experience and skills, making it easy for hiring managers to understand your qualifications at a glance. Here are some tips to writing the most important 2-4 sentences of your resume:

Step 1: Start with your professional title, or the one you aspire to.

Step 2: Detail your years of experience in health information technician-related roles and your industry experience.

Step 3: What are your biggest professional wins? Here is your opportunity to highlight your strongest accomplishments by placing them at the start of your resume.

Step 4: Don't forget, your goal is to summarize your experience. Keep it short and sweet, so it's easy for recruiters to quickly understand why you're a great hire.

These tips will help you demonstrate why you are the perfect fit for the health information technician position.

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List the right project manager skills

Many resumes are filtered out by hiring software before a human eye ever sees them. A robust Skills section can let recruiters (and bots) know you have the skills to do the job. Here is how to make the most of your skills section:

  1. You often need to include the exact keywords from the job description in your resume. Look at the job listing and consider which of the listed skills you have experience with, along with related skills.
  2. Include as many relevant hard skills and soft skills as possible from the listing.
  3. Use the most up to date and accurate terms. Don't forget to be specific.
These five steps should give you a strong elevator pitch and land you some health information technician interviews.

Here are example skills to include in your “Area of Expertise” on a health information technician resume:

  • Patients
  • Medical Terminology
  • Customer Service
  • HIPAA
  • Patient Care
  • Data Entry
  • Office Equipment
  • Transcription
  • Rehabilitation
  • Birth Certificates
  • ROI
  • CPT
  • Chart Completion
  • Medicaid
  • Patient Data
  • Statistical Reports
  • Cerner
  • Phone Calls
  • Subpoenas
  • Patient Charts
  • Medical Reports
  • Dictation
  • Home Health
  • Hippa
  • JCAHO
  • ICD-9-CM
  • QA
  • PHI
  • Quality Review
  • Emergency Room

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How to structure your work experience

A work experience section is a vital part of your resume because it shows you have the experience to succeed in your next job.

  1. Put your most recent experience first. Prospective employers care about your most recent accomplishments the most.
  2. Put the job title, company name, city, and state on the left. Align dates in month and year format on the right-hand side.
  3. Include only recent, relevant jobs. This means if you're a fairly experienced worker, you might need to leave off that first internship or other positions in favor of highlighting more pertinent positions.

How to write health information technician experience bullet points

Your resume is your chance to show your biggest accomplishments. Don't just list your job responsibilities, instead take the opportunity to show why you're really good at what you do. Here is how you do that:

  • Start with strong action verbs like managed, spearheaded, created, etc. Your goal is to show what you did and verbs will help demonstrate your contributions.
  • Use numbers to quantify your achievements. Did you save time with a new report? Increase revenue? How large was the team you managed?
  • Keep it concise. You're highlighting your achievements. Consider if all details you are sharing are relevant, or can be written more efficiently.

Here are great bullet points from health information technician resumes:

Work history example #1

Insurance Clerk

Western Dental Services

  • Maintained close communication with coworkers and supervisors to facilitate operations.
  • Processed incoming carrier correspondence * Adjudicated Medical claims electronically and HCFA 1500 forms.
  • Integrated Allstate Workplace Division products as an additional line of business for the agency.
  • Maintained communication with customers throughout the repair process.
  • Scheduled and organized appointments between patients and radiology technicians.

Work history example #2

Medical Records Clerk

Ciox Health

  • Complied with HIPPA and IU rules.
  • Performed quality assurance checks on processed requests to ensure information was accurate, complete and HIPAA compliant.
  • Followed all HIPAA guidelines pertaining to patient confidentiality.
  • Curated working knowledge of the current state laws regarding fee structure, HIPAA regulations, facility policies and procedures.
  • Verified and processed all mail/medical record requests/authorizations that were HIPAA compliant.

Work history example #3

Medical Records Technician

Ciox Health

  • Looked over all authorizations to make sure they were HIPAA compliant before releasing records.
  • Followed all HIPAA guidelines pertaining to patient confidentiality.
  • Worked on various software such as Responds, Powertrac, WebConnect, Cerner, Allscripts and many more.
  • Processed requests from Disability, Attorneys, insurance companies and Subpoenas for release of Information for patient files.
  • Documented chief compliant/past medical/surgical/family history/tobacco status into EHR system.

Work history example #4

Information Associate

Park Nicollet Medical Center

  • Maintained confidentially of all client information in accordance with HIPPA guidelines to retrieve and deliver medical records requested by facility professionals.
  • Carried out functions adhering to the Medicare Compliance Checker guidelines, while being familiar with the CPT & ICD-9 coding system.
  • Maintained medical records in compliance with HIPAA regulations within the Gynecology department and served as Patient Services Coordinator as needed
  • Assisted in the establishment and ongoing modifications of procedures and checklists to ensure process uniformity.
  • Abstracted and assigned ICD-9 & CPT 4 codes as requested by patient, third party requestors, and/or legal requests;.

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Add an education section to your resume

Employers are looking for a few things when looking at the Education section of your resume:
  • The highest degree you have achieved.
  • TWhere you attended school, and the dates (Although if you graduated some time ago, leave the date off to avoid ageism)
  • TField of study
  • TAny honors, relevant coursework, achievements, or pertinent activities

Here are some examples of good education entries from health information technician resumes:

Master's Degree in business

Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL

2006 - 2007

High School Diploma

2014 - 2014

Highlight your health information technician certifications on your resume

Certifications can be a crucial part of your resume. Many jobs have required certifications.

Include the full name of the certification, along with the name of the issuing organization and date of obtainment.

If you have any of these certifications, be sure to include them on your health information technician resume:

  1. Registered Health Information Technician (RHIT)
  2. Certified Phlebotomy Technician (CPT)
  3. Certified Medical Office Manager (CMOM)
  4. Certified Medical Administrative Assistant (CMAA)
  5. Registered Health Information Administrator (RHIA)
  6. Certified Pharmacy Technician (CPhT)
  7. Certified Professional in Health Information Technology (CPHT)
  8. Certified Professional in Electronic Health Records (CPEHR)
  9. Certified Clinical Medical Assistant (NHA)
  10. Certified Information Technology Professional (CITP)

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