Health Information Technician
1,033 active US providers register Health Information Technician as their primary taxonomy. That is 0.01% of every provider in the registry, and the 381st largest of 584 specialties with a page here.
- Taxonomy code
- 247000000X
- Grouping
- Technologists, Technicians & Other Technical Service Providers
- Classification
- Technician, Health Information
- Active providers
- 1,033
- States covered
- 45 of 51
What the code means
Preferred term for an Accredited Record Technician who is an individual with an associate's degree from an accredited college or independent study program who is skilled in analyzing health information and in examination of medical records for accuracy, reporting of patient data for reimbursement, and creation of disease registries for researchers.
Definition quoted verbatim from the NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy code set, version 25.1. Not paraphrased.
Where they are
Counted by practice location, not by mailing address or by licence state. A provider practising across a state line is counted where they practise.
| State | Providers | Share |
|---|---|---|
| California | 333 | |
| Michigan | 245 | |
| Oregon | 55 | |
| Washington | 39 | |
| Florida | 38 | |
| Texas | 31 | |
| Illinois | 25 | |
| District of Columbia | 23 | |
| New York | 22 | |
| Arizona | 19 | |
| Louisiana | 15 | |
| Oklahoma | 14 | |
| Pennsylvania | 12 | |
| Tennessee | 11 | |
| Georgia | 11 |
Showing the 15 largest of 45 states with at least one.
Who registers under this code
943 of these are people and 90 are organisations, so 9% of the code is businesses rather than clinicians. Half of them had registered by 2020, and 490 registered in the last five years, 47% of the current population.
That is a fast-growing code. A population where a large share registered recently is either a genuinely expanding field or a category NPPES added late, and the taxonomy definition above usually tells you which.
Where the practices are
By practice-location city. City counts are noisier than state counts, because a large employer files one address for many providers.
- PLYMOUTH, MI162
- SAN LEANDRO, CA70
- OAKLAND, CA47
- MEDFORD, OR44
- SAN FRANCISCO, CA39
- NOVI, MI26
- WASHINGTON, DC23
- SAN LUIS OBISPO, CA14
- SAN DIEGO, CA13
- PETALUMA, CA11
What else they list
Providers whose primary code is Health Information Technician most often carry these secondary taxonomies as well. This is the closest thing the registry has to a map of which specialties overlap in practice, and it is not published anywhere else.
| Also listed | Providers | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Other Technician | 8 | 0.8% |
| Case Manager/Care Coordinator | 8 | 0.8% |
| Community Health Worker | 7 | 0.7% |
| Assistant Health Information Record Technician | 5 | 0.5% |
| Peer Specialist | 4 | 0.4% |
| Health Information Specialist/Technologist | 4 | 0.4% |
| Behavior Technician | 4 | 0.4% |
| Counselor | 3 | 0.3% |
Nearby specialties
Other taxonomies NUCC files under Technician, Health Information.
Looking up a specific provider
These counts come from the monthly NPPES file. To check one provider, use their NPI: the lookup reads the live registry and shows whether the identifier is still active, which the monthly file cannot tell you about the last few weeks.
Counts from npidata_pfile_20050523-20260712.csv, built 2026-08-09. Primary taxonomy only, deactivated identifiers excluded.