As of 2022, there are 47,106 people employed in the digital health industry in the US. This number grew 27.3% between 2017 and 2022.1 Digital health in general is supported by almost all areas of IT to deliver care, educate, analyze, predict, etc. Most technical jobs in the field are functions of IT and strategy teams. The same is true for the product side of digital health. Many different IT fields are leveraged from developers, DB engineers, cyber security, network engineers, etc., in order to get a product or service out to market. Communications is a broad area and covers much of this, so UC Specialist would be a good field to mimic when looking for someone to help in the telemedicine and Digital Health spaces.
Examples of jobs in telehealth:
- Software Developer
- Product Developer
- Product Manager
- Network Administrator
- Network Engineer
- Collaboration Specialist/Administrator
- Collaboration Engineer
- Application Specialist/Administrator
- Application Support/Help Desk
- Telemedicine Specialist/Administrator
- Telemedicine Support/Help Desk
- Communications Engineer
- Communications Specialist
- Technology (IT) Manager
- Technology (IT) Director
- Unified Communications Manager
- Unified Communications Director
- Telemedicine Manager
- Telemedicine Director
- Subject Matter Experts
- Remote Patient Monitoring
- Networking
- Security
- Collaboration
- Consumer Technologies
- Audio Video
- Workstations
Resources
- Plan your telehealth workflow (PDF)
Health Resources and Services Administration - Planning your telehealth workflow
Health Resources and Services Administration - Telehealth training and workforce development best practice guide
Health Resources and Services Administration - Telementoring and training for the health workforce (video)
Health Resources and Services Administration - Hybrid virtual care models for optimal patient experience
National Consortium of Telehealth Resource Centers - Mapping workflow of telehealth programs in rural telehealth toolkit
Rural Health Information Hub - Rural telementoring training center
Rural Telementoring Training Center - Professional Requirements (CCHP)