A bright future for medical records techs?

The evolution of healthcare has brought changes to career tracks and staff levels—some good, some not. CareerCast, an employment website, predicts that implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) will lead to hiring for healthcare professionals in the very near future. CareerCast’s list of the top dozen healthcare related jobs (in terms of expected growth) include physician assistant (PA), with 30% growth expected, and medical records technician, with expected growth of 21% in the next decade. A look at CareerCast’s list shows most of the jobs with the highest projected growth need not be hospital-based. In fact, the outlook for hospital-based jobseekers may not be so bright: A news report last week stated that as major hospital chains around the country have consolidated and reorganized, thousands of nursing and other healthcare jobs have been cut.

Shifts in the healthcare employment landscape are happening and will continue to do so. What are the biggest changes you’re seeing in your organization’s medical staff services department? Let me know. And as always, thanks for reading!

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Mary Stevens, Editor, Medical Staff Leader Insider