Prepare for a Career in Today's Fastest Growing Field
With an enormous demand for skilled professionals to design, operate and maintain the technology that makes the healthcare system run, it's no surprise that ten out of the twenty occupations projected to grow the fastest in the next few years are concentrated in health services. From maintaining patients' records to analyzing crucial data, careers in health information technology allow you to work in a dynamic field that's rich with opportunity and revolutionary advancements.
Careers in health information technology can be found in a wide variety of settings, such as:
- Hospitals
- Physician's offices
- Clinics and other medical or mental health facilities
- Pharmaceutical companies
- Educational institutions
- Insurance companies
- Government agencies
- Vendor firms
Go from DeVry Degree to In-Demand, Skilled Professional in No Time
When you earn your health information technology degree from DeVry, you'll be prepared for a number of booming career fields. Here are a couple of examples:
- Healthcare Applications Developer: Not only will you enjoy exciting challenges as you design, build and integrate advanced technological tools for the healthcare profession, as a healthcare applications developer you'll be helping others do their jobs more effectively as they care for patients. From developing the software that allows personnel to collect patient information to streamlining the processing of this information, you'll put your technological skills as well as your problem-solving and analytical abilities to work in a dynamic, progressive environment.
- Health Information Technician: As technology assumes a larger and larger role in healthcare, careers for information technicians continue to multiply. Using your knowledge of information technology, you'll retrieve, share and make optimal use of biomedical data as a health information technologist. Specific job titles in this career field include Health Information Analyst and Clinical Information Systems Manager.
Get the Health Information Technology Career You Want with a Degree from DeVry
Graduates of DeVry's Health Information Technology associate degree program are prepared for these careers and more! Through a mix of informative classes and hands-on experience, you learn the fundamental concepts, principals, theory and skills that a health information technology professional needs to succeed.
DeVry graduates with a degree in health information technology will be prepared for career-entry positions in areas such as:
- Healthcare information systems applications development
- Healthcare data acquisition, manipulation, analysis and management.
- Biomedical information applications programming
- Biomedical data acquisition, manipulation, analysis and management
- Database applications
- Web applications
- Applications software consulting
- Sales and marketing support
DeVry is the university where you can gain the skills, credentials and respect you need to make it big in the world of health information technology. DeVry's success at preparing its students for careers is hard to beat! Check this out.for the past year in all DeVry programs and locations combined, 91% of DeVry graduates in the active job market held positions in their chosen field within 6 months of graduation and earned average entry-level salary of $41,000.
Earn your degree at DeVry today and start your career in health information technology tomorrow!
Learn more about how your health information technology degree can be applied in a variety of career fields. Click to download Careers in Healthcare Technology fact sheet (PDF) and Careers in Technical Management fact sheet (PDF).
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