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The shift of the jobs is going more toward informatics. The people who were nurses, they are now joining IT. People who were transport people, they have joined information technology - .Dr. Shafiq Rab

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How technology is poised to create a career boom in health care

As a family physician, Jon White dealt with mountains of paperwork every day. From charts to medical histories and prescriptions, each patient came with their own bundle of papers. Sometimes the script was illegible, and sometimes sheets would get lost. When he was on call and asked to consult on a case from home, White often couldn’t verify patient details since the files were back in the office. White thought there had to be a better way to address these challenges.

“I came to appreciate that in order to deliver great care, you need great information,” White said.

The idea led him into the burgeoning field of health-care information technology, which includes everything…

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 How technology is poised to create a career boom in health care

Today health-care providers around the world spend more than $100 billion per year on health IT, an emerging field that includes electronic health records, online patient portals, health apps and personalized medicine. More than 45 percent of that spending comes from North America...

5 Jobs You Can Land with a Health Information Management (HIM) Degree

If you’re interested in technology, love working with data and want to make a difference in healthcare, a health information management (HIM) career could be a good fit for you. HIM careers are experiencing rapid growth as healthcare organizations invest in digital technologies to streamline record-keeping processes and secure vast amounts of patient data.

Top 5 IT Certifications in Healthcare

There are numerous certifications that specifically target IT for healthcare...

7 Jobs You Can Get With a Health Information Management Degree

The health information management (HIM) field has been around for decades—but what HIM encompasses today is a far cry from what the field looked like during its infancy back in the 1920s. From medical records documented in paper form and manually filed by “records librarians” to the streamlined electronic health records (EHR) systems utilized in today’s digital landscape, health information has come a long way.

AAPC

AAPC is the nation's largest training and credentialing organization for the business side of medicine. Our certified members in medical coding, medical auditing, compliance, and practice management represent the highest level of expertise in the industry.

American Health Information Management Association

Empowering people to impact health.

Health IT Answers

HITECH Answers has positioned itself as the trusted and independent source on EHR adoption. While the CMS EHR incentives are a 5 year disbursement program, it is only the beginning of the Federal initiative on EHR adoption.

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Workers in health information technology, often referred to as health information technicians, medical records technicians or medical coders, maintain the medical information of patients in hospitals and other health care organizations. In order to become a health information technician, it is usually necessary to obtain a postsecondary certificate or an associate's degree.

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