Health

• Pathways

  • Direct or Hands-on Patient Care
  • Imaging and Diagnostics
• Direct or Hands-on Patient Care

  • Involves high level of direct patient interaction and follow-up care
  • Aims to maintain or improve the health of patients over a period of time
  • Career setting: health centers, hospitals, lying-in clinics, and rehabilitation centers
• Imaging and Diagnostics

  • Involves limited patient interaction
  • Involves the use of diagnostic tests, such as imaging and blood exams
  • Goal: determining accurate diagnosis to facilitate proper medical intervention
  • Requires specific education or training in imaging technology
• Roles in Direct or Hands-on Patient Care

  • Nurse
  • Dentist
  • Physician
  • Pharmacist
  • Psychologist
  • Dietitian or Nutritionist
  • Occupational or Physical therapist
• Roles in Imaging and Diagnostics

  • Pathologist
  • Radiologist
  • Phlebotomist
  • X-ray technicians
  • Ultrasound technicians
  • Cardiovascular technologist
  • Medical laboratory technologist
• Roles for care facility support

  • Medical librarian
  • Sanitary engineer
  • Infection control officer
  • Building or hospital administrator
  • Hospital maintenance engineer
  • Biomedical equipment technician
• Health care facility support

  • Ensure proper function of all the auxiliary service and department of the hospitals
  • Provides and maintains sanitary and therapeutic environment to deliver appropriate care to patient
• Roles health information or business

  • Billing clerk
  • Data analyst
  • Medical encoder
  • Medical records staff
  • Medical transcriptionist
  • Health information specialist
  • Health services administrator
• Health information or business

  • Does not Involve patient care interaction
  • Fucused on essential services that sustain hospital operations such as administration
  • Career setting hospital community health center mental health facilities and private office
• Role research and development

  • Geneticst
  • Toxicologist
  • Biostatistician
  • Epidemiologist
  • Lab technician
  • Biomedical chemist
  • Biomedical engineer
  • Pharmaceutical scienctist
• careers of health information or business and reasearch and development

  A) billing clerk

  B) data analyst

  C) medical encoder

  D) medical record staff

  E) medical transcriptionist

  F) health information specialist

  G) health services administration

  H) geniticist

  I) toxicologist

  J) biostastician

  K) epidemiologist

  L) lab technician

  M) biochemical chemist

  N) biomedical engineer

  O) pharmaceutical scientist