Top Occupations and States
Top Occupations
As an industry, healthcare is notable for the sheer amount of data it collectively processes on a minute-by-minute basis. From drug-testing results to patient records, massive datasets must be continually stored, moved, analyzed for insight and integrated into different apps and services. It’s a complex and vital set of tasks, which is why the top tech occupations within healthcare are dominated by data, systems, application and business systems analysts. Moreover, these analysts must deal with heavily regulated, protected data — those with knowledge of HIPPA and other regulations have much more leverage on the market.
Given healthcare’s evolution, software and network engineers are tasked with continually maintaining vital systems and apps while figuring out how to best iterate features. Overhauling healthcare records and databases is one of the most vexing issues facing the healthcare industry today, and it demands engineers who are not only effective project managers, but who can step back to see the system holistically.
As malicious actors launch more cyberattacks against hospitals and healthcare companies, tech professionals with a background in cybersecurity have only become more valuable. The need for specialists who can identify vulnerabilities before they’re exploited will never go away, no matter how the broader healthcare market fares over the next several years.
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One oft-overlooked area for many organizations is your tech stack — what you use, why you use it and how the systems integrate with each other is tremendously important to tech professionals — and can be a differentiator or deal-breaker in terms of how they view an organization.
Top States
It will come as no big surprise that the states with the biggest populations — and thus the biggest consumers of healthcare — are also the biggest employers of tech talent within healthcare. California, Texas, New York and Massachusetts are also tech hubs, giving local companies a deeper hiring pool for their tech talent needs.