Growth in Career Opportunities in the Healthcare Information Technology Sector

The healthcare sector has become one of the fastest-developing service-sectors, adding greater advantage to the country’s economy. With the rapidly changing environment and the conducive government regulations, Indian healthcare sector is making its way for a steep growth curve in the coming years, particularly, in terms of revenue and employment. The existing economic progress and the large population growth in the country are adding to its assets to quadruple GDP growth and increase the opportunities within the sector. Currently, with the Indian healthcare sector witnessing a fast-paced growth, it is giving clear indications that there’s going to be immense career opportunities within the sector in the coming years.

The Growth of the Indian Healthcare Industry:

Today, the Indian healthcare sector is standing high in the global sphere, for its quality, cost-effective healthcare services, and delivery. As a result, more possibilities are open for the Indian healthcare market size to expand and grow further. Currently, the Indian healthcare industry is expanding at a CAGR of 16% and this growth rate is expected to increase three-fold in the coming years. The sector’s sturdy growth can be attributed to the growing demographic population, increase in lifestyle diseases, consumer awareness, penetration of health insurance, and more. Moreover, the government interventions and private player investments are propelling the sector further to advance its infrastructure and services to the world-class level. All these factors and growth drives are sure to offer a vast range of career opportunities for healthcare professionals in the upcoming decades.

The Indian sector is seeing major advancements in medical technology and digital health. With such developments, the sector is gaining a prominent position in the global arena, and particularly medical tourism, diagnostic facilities, and the pharmaceutical sector are gaining new markets for their quality and cost-effective services. In that sense, the growing possibilities within the healthcare are practically endless. As a result, there is a compelling need for the industry to employ efficient professionals who could strengthen the healthcare system for its impending growth and development.

It is clear that with the recent advancements and developments in the healthcare industry today driving the nation's economic growth, the demand for healthcare professionals and allied health practitioners in the country is also on the increase. It is undeniable that high-quality higher educational programs and healthcare-related courses are gaining ground for graduates to embark on a career in this sector. To that end, we, at IIHMR, stand as one of the esteemed healthcare management and research institutions in the country providing quality health management programs that aid the transformation of aspirants into highly skilled and efficient healthcare professionals to tackle the existing need and demand.

Opportunities in Healthcare Information Technology:

With the digital healthcare system growing over the recent years, there is more scope for graduates in this field. Today, the role of digital solutions in healthcare cannot be overlooked and as a result of which, new-age medical and non-medical jobs in this domain are gaining momentum. The increasing use of digital tools and solutions in healthcare for quality and accessible healthcare delivery has given rise to new job creations in various departments, ranging from management to allied health systems. So, with the healthcare sector embracing digital solutions, the career possibilities within the industry are becoming more and more diverse, and experts and professionals from every other field are getting involved in the healthcare systems.

Everything from data management and cloud computing to AI-based surgery and telemedicine requires IT experts with a knowledge and expertise in healthcare. Moreover, state-of-the-art infrastructure and technologies like telemedicine and artificial intelligence have opened up a plethora of job opportunities in the industry. With the adoption of Electronic Medical Records(EMR), Electronic Health Records(HER), health Information Technology standards, job trends in healthcare information technology (HIT) are rapidly gaining momentum.  Health Information Technology professional are responsible for bridging the gap between clinical and Information Technology. Health informatics specialists will work on implementation of information technology in healthcare. Data Scientist are another highest pay job worldwide in market today. Job of data scientist is to analysis massive amount of data and extract the hidden pattern, insight from them. Another job includes Chief medical informatics Officer, Consultant Health IT, Health Information Administrator, HIT managers and Director. Jobs in standards are International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD 10) tester, coder and Conversion managers, Health Level-7 or HL 7 interface developers and analyst.

Thus, the increasing demographics and other growth-drivers of healthcare along with the rise of digitalization and the arrival of new technologies have allowed clinicians and medical professionals to look out for the help of other professionals in the field and so opportunities of employment in the healthcare industry are getting diversified and growing hand-in-hand with the development.

To cope with the changing trends and to bridge the gap between the demand and availability of skilled healthcare professionals in the industry, IIHMR has been providing healthcare management education with a touch of information technology and digital knowledge for students to efficiently manage and succeed in the changing trends in healthcare. With the healthcare sector witnessing great growth and expansion at the moment, graduates are open to pursuing a variety of career paths in the segment and management institutes like IIHMR are at the responsibility of offering programs that address the growing need and demand for well-trained efficient personnel.

Overall, a career in the healthcare sector today looks very promising for students as the modern advancements have increased the employment possibilities to an entirely new level. But what is required today is that the healthcare professionals should be well-prepared with the digital knowledge to increase the efficiency of the healthcare solutions, which can be done by means of attaining high-quality health management education with a cutting-edge curriculum that meets the current trends. In that sense, IIHMR has been consistently working towards enhancing its management education, so as to prepare the students to stand at the forefront in their careers.