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As an imaging informatics professional, job requirements may be vastly different from location to location. In some locations, the imaging informatics professional may be solely responsible for all information systems, interfaces, workstations, and many other external systems such as transcription, whereas others may be partially responsible for a system while still having duties of a radiologic technologist
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Griffin, S. (2009). Billing and Coding. In: Branstetter, B. (eds) Practical Imaging Informatics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0485-0_19
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