Health Information Technologists and Medical Registrars
Also called: Applications Analyst, Cancer Registrar, Cancer Tumor Registrar, Certified Cancer Registrar, Certified Tumor Registrar (CTR), Clinical Analyst, Clinical Data Specialist, Clinical Documentation Improvement Specialist (CDIS)
Apply knowledge of healthcare and information systems to assist in the design, development, and continued modification and analysis of computerized healthcare systems.
What health information technologists and medical registrars do
Typical tasks
- Assign the patient to diagnosis-related groups (DRGs), using appropriate computer software.
- Compile medical care and census data for statistical reports on diseases treated, surgery performed, or use of hospital beds.
- Design databases to support healthcare applications, ensuring security, performance and reliability.
- Develop in-service educational materials.
- Evaluate and recommend upgrades or improvements to existing computerized healthcare systems.
- Facilitate and promote activities, such as lunches, seminars, or tours, to foster healthcare information privacy or security awareness within the organization.
- Identify, compile, abstract, and code patient data, using standard classification systems.
- Manage the department or supervise clerical workers, directing or controlling activities of personnel in the medical records department.
- Monitor changes in legislation and accreditation standards that affect information security or privacy in the computerized healthcare system.
- Plan, develop, maintain, or operate a variety of health record indexes or storage and retrieval systems to collect, classify, store, or analyze information.
- Prepare statistical reports, narrative reports, or graphic presentations of information, such as tumor registry data for use by hospital staff, researchers, or other users.
- Protect the security of medical records to ensure that confidentiality is maintained.
Typical path into the job (BLS)
Health Information Technologists and Medical Registrars salary
The median annual wage for health information technologists and medical registrars is $68,020 (BLS OEWS May 2025; BLS Employment Projections 2025–35, national). The lowest 10 percent earn less than $39,830 and the highest 10 percent earn more than $117,420. The mean annual wage is $74,970.
The mean hourly wage of $36.00 is 5.0× the federal minimum wage of $7.25. State minimums are higher in most large states. Minimum wage by state →
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Pay by percentile
Annual wage percentiles from the BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS). Percentiles are a good proxy for pay by experience.
Projected pay for Health Information Technologists and Medical Registrars (3, 5 and 10 years)est.
Today $68,020 → in 3 years $75,400 → in 5 years $80,800 → in 10 years $95,900 (10-year range $82,500–$111,400). The model assumes pay growth of +3.5% per year.
What drives the annual growth rate
Projected pay = current pay × (1 + annual growth)^years. The annual growth rate starts from a base wage-growth rate and adds or subtracts labor demand (BLS projected employment growth), wage momentum and AI replacement risk for each occupation. Projections are not guarantees. How it is calculated →
Outlook score for Health Information Technologists and Medical Registrars
Each component is a percentile rank among all occupations in the same country (0–100). Weights: labor demand 25, wage momentum / openings 15, pay level 15, AI resistance 25, aging workforce 10 (Japan only), entry barrier 10.
Will AI replace Health Information Technologists and Medical Registrars? AI replacement risk
How AI is changing this job
A written analysis for this occupation is being prepared.
AI replacement risk compares the parts of a job that are easy to hand to AI or software (processing information, documentation, repetitive computer work) with the parts that are hard to automate (physical work, working closely with people, judgment in unpredictable settings), using O*NET work activities, work context, skills and knowledge. The result is a relative position among all occupations in the country, scaled to 0–100%. Methodology →
Labor demand for Health Information Technologists and Medical Registrars
Employment projections are from the BLS Employment Projections program (2025–35). Annual openings include both new jobs and replacement of workers who leave the occupation.
The same job in Japan
| Health Information Technologists and Medical Registrars United States | 診療情報管理士 Japan | |
|---|---|---|
| Median / average pay | $68,020 | ¥5.29M ≈ $33,620 |
| Pay in 10 years (est.) | $95,900 | ¥5.82M |
| Outlook score | 73 | 39 |
| AI replacement risk | 15% Very low | 86% Very high |
| Workers | 38K | — |
Matched by occupation (SOC code). Yen converted at 157.25 JPY/USD for reference; Japanese figures are averages, U.S. figures are medians, and the surveys define occupations differently.
Skills, education and requirements for Health Information Technologists and Medical Registrars
Job Zone 3 — medium preparation needed (O*NET)
Difficulty of entry: ★★★☆☆ Moderate (from education, training, experience and Job Zone)
How to become health information technologists and medical registrars
A step-by-step guide for this occupation is being prepared. The education, training and experience data above show the typical path.
Career path and how to earn more as health information technologists and medical registrars
Career-path guidance is being prepared. Pay by percentile is shown in the Pay section.