Healthcare careers always promising

The demographics of healthcare has undergone major change over the past decade. Modalities that create digital images, PACS that store and retrieve the digital images, EHR/EMR/RIS systems that automate the hospital workflow starting from order creation until upto billing, billing and coding of procedures with latest ICD-10 coding system, implementation of big data systems to accommodate growing patient information to name a few has opened lots of avenues, opportunities for tech talents to find a promising career in healthcare. If you are from IT background with basic infrastructure knowledge starting with fixing simple repairs in your desktop then you are in a position to find a job in healthcare service IT. Leta take a quick look at some positions that will be in great demand in coming days 1) Healthcare IT Technician - If you have some basic service IT certification like comptia Healthcare It technician, if not some Microsoft certified professional basic certification covering service IT aspects you can find your next job in healthcare domain. Many hospitals, clinics, imaging centers, private physician practice are looking to employ onsite healthcare IT technicians and you are in good hands. This job involves being on-site in the healthcare facility and help fix the hardware, software, networking issues. Most jobs work on 24x7 rotation basis. You can grow to lead a team of service personnel 2) ICD-10 - With the date nearing for latest coding system implementation, there has been a demand and lookout for personnel who are qualified to handle ICD-10 coding. If you are in ICD-9 , new to coding this is a skillet that comes handy. Medical coding and billing is promising indeed 3) Healthcare Big Data - With velocity and volume of patient information growing at spectacular phase, need to mine this information is growing in parallel. As such big data implementations have already found their role in healthcare. Many organizations have plans to roll out big data projects and personnel who are proficient in big data tools, technologies, analysts will be in great demand 4) SQL Skill - Healthcare software development , business analysis, quality assurance and major healthcare IT jobs demand sql skills. This can be on any popular flavor of database like oracle, sql server etc. Start learning basic queries to handle healthcare IT systems 5) Healthcare System Support - As opposed to service IT who are mainly involves in hardware, healthcare support role is mainly dedicated to implementation, maintenance, support of healthcare software. There is a small overlap among these roles depending on size of organizations