Health Information & Informatics Management

[AGDee]

I work with a lot of RHITs in a research department for a large health care system. I can tell you that some of the plusses for them is that it's easy to find "work from home" kinds of jobs. Health care is one of the few "industries" that is still growing and will continue to grow as the baby boomers approach senior citizen status. With more and more health care agencies going to all electronic records, expect to spend a lot of time looking at a computer screen! Our abstractors (RHITs) are always really busy so their jobs are quite secure. They have the most flexibility of any position in our department because of the ability to do most of their work from home, on off hours, etc.

[AKA_Monet]

Not only that, but the Global Public Health is requesting informatics people for Health Ministries from less developed countries. Apparently, the Health Ministries pay all kinds of money... No one will be cured of everything in life. And there will always be newer or different illnesses. Besides boomers with impact the health system in ~5 years or less and by 2025 there will be no Social Security...