I earned my HIT AAS from McKinley during 5/14. Do not waste your time or money taking Health Information Technology from McKinley College. It isn't an AHIMA certified school so you won't be able to sit for the RHIT test and most notable hospitals are requiring a RHIT certification to hold a medical records position at their facility. Try Santa Barbara City College in CA instead. They have an online AAS program in HIM that is AHIMA certified and cost less than McKinley. The instructors at McKinley were slow to return emails and often the email replies used as few words as possible so the explanations to my questions were lacking. Medical coding in ICD-9 is particularly abstract so a student needs to be able to get prompt, sufficient replies in order to decipher which code to choose. read more