Health Information’s Impact on Research I agree with the AHIMA article in that health information professionals are needed in today's research studies because of the specific and diverse knowledge that HIM professionals have Health information professionals can play many different roles in healthcare which led me to choose this field in the first place As the article states Health information professionals have the responsibility of providing quality data to support the delivery of quality healthcare and balancing the right to privacy with providing access to health data for legitimate users remain constant unique and expanding opportunities in the areas of information technology IT database management and data analysis AHIMA With all these skills that health information personnel acquire there is no doubt that we could be useful for any research type project In this paper I will describe how health information professionals are not only a benefit to the research process but also the impact of health information personnel on the topic of research
