Edition: November 22nd, 2021
Curated by the Knowledge Team of ICS Career GPS
- Excerpts from article by Vijayashree Natarajan, published in The Hindu
In the last two decades, the role of technology in healthcare has grown enormously, and is predicted to continue to increase in tandem with industrial-technological improvements. Improved technology is closely linked to our ability to store, exchange and analyse health data. Not only does it enhance provider capacities and patient access, but it also increases the quality of life for some patients and saves money.
With rising national and worldwide demand, health sciences have become the most employable sector.
Here are some tech-driven emerging career opportunities in Healthcare:
1. Computer-assisted Medical Diagnostic Coding
- Medical diagnostic and treatment coding has always been a challenge.
- With coding accuracy being critical, automation comes in handy.
- Accuracy is just one of the advantages of using an intelligent automation platform.
- It can also help save time and shorten turnaround times.
- These benefits can be seen across several sub-processes, too, resulting in economies of scale.
2. Virtual Nursing / Telemedicine
- Healthcare professionals are not immune to the distancing requisites demanded by global health crises such as the current one.
- Virtual nursing is especially in demand in understaffed locations.
- This technology helps on-site nurses monitor patients through high-definition technology while accessing patient-specific information such as medication labels, medical reports, and so on.
- The impact of telemedicine on the access, quality, and cost of healthcare has been significant during the pandemic.
3. Data Analysis
- The industry requires gigantic amounts of information to be processed, stored and maintained, daily.
- Data Analysts help boost the efficiency of proper functioning and are responsible for interpreting data from various sources.
4. Health IT & Products
- Health IT brings up a plethora of new study and exploration opportunities to make healthcare more focused and effective than it has ever been.
- This has opened up the need for more Health IT systems/products to cater to the patient-centric/value-based treatment need.
- It also necessitates employing experts who are knowledgeable about these systems, and could help run and maintain them.
5. Cybersecurity
- Today, there is a greater need to secure critical information such as patient data, medical records, and insurance details.
- A breach in systems can cause identity thefts, leaked financial / medical information, lawsuits, etc.
- As a result, there’s a high demand for cybersecurity professionals in the healthcare sector.
Medicine has always been built on the foundations of innovation and discovery. From AI algorithms that read X-Rays, cancer treatments guided by genome sequencing, large-scale data analytics, or nanotechnology, it is hard to imagine medicine, as we know it today, without integrated technology. That alliance is a critical need.
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