Health Informatics Career Pathway

Career pathways are sub-groupings of occupations and career specialties in a career cluster. Groups of occupations are organized under career pathways based upon the common set of specialized knowledge and skills specifically related to the career pathway that students must learn in order to achieve career success.

Health Informatics occupations require students to have the knowledge and skills necessary to manage or coordinate health care environments, educate health care professionals, document or input information relating to health care management, and keep records of a client’s medical history that will support health care problem solving and decision making. The Health Informatics career pathway includes occupations ranging from health care administrators to medical coders.

Curricula developed for a program leading to a specialized degree or certification in a career pathway will include the general knowledge and skills of the career cluster, and the specialized knowledge and skills for the career pathway.

To identify the knowledge and technical skills that students will learn in a CTE program or program of study (POS), go to the National Center for Educational Statistics website at: http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/cipcode/browse.aspx?y=55.

Click on “Start Here, Browse all CIP Codes,” then click on “51) Health Professions and Related Programs” to access descriptions of the content of the health care programs.

Health Informatics Programs Offered by Postsecondary Institutions in New Jersey

The following template provides a listing of Health Informatics programs, and their corresponding Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) Codes, that are operating at both community colleges and universities, or at community colleges in New Jersey. For a more comprehensive listing, go to the following website:

Potential Secondary and Postsecondary Linkages
http://www.nj.gov/education/cte/clusters/