Job & Career
Producers, service providers, and administrative companies in the healthcare sector need more and more specialists who are educated in the areas of medical engineering and information technology. These specialists require the skills to overcome the complex challenge of networking and the implementation of modern medical and IT technology. As costs for training of complicated systems in the medical field, people who are already familiar with these systems will have a definite advantage over people who do not.The institutions, which are demanding more IT such as hospitals and healthcare providers, are seeing a rapid growth of the implementation and use of medical information technology in their workplace.
Another reason for this high importance – on the individual level as well – is also growing because patients in the future will expect the same communication possibilities that they are experiencing now in their workplaces and at home (electronic bank payments, internet accessibility, etc.).
For specialists in the field of medical information technology a wide spectrum of career fields awaits them:
Development of new medical information technology systems from the design to the finished product from both the side of the supplier as well as the user.
- Product and technical support
- Sales and sales support
- Systems consulting
- Purchasing of medical information technology products
- Maintaining and operating the systems
- Servicing of systems on both the supplier and user side
- Quality Management
- Project Management
- Testing and safety technology
Specialized requirements include:
- Professional competence in the technical as well as the medical field
- Communicative capabilities as well as creativity
- Good knowledge of the users
- User-oriented thinking
- Good organizational abilities
- Expert usage of English
- Good working experience in hospitals
- Practical development capabilities to adapt to changing medical requirements
- Additional sales training
- Familiarity in legal border areas
- Knowledge of standards and legal guidelines as well as industrial norms
