💡 Why it matters: Hospitals are moving from paper files to digital records and need people who understand both health and technology to run them.
🌍 Around the world
- United States: Jobs are projected to grow 16% from 2025 to 2035, much faster than average (US Bureau of Labor Statistics).
💰 What it can pay
🇳🇬 Nigeria
- Starting out
- ₦2M – ₦4.5M
- Mid-career
- ₦4.5M – ₦10M
- Senior
- ₦10M – ₦22M
≈ ₦375k – ₦833k a month mid-career. Indicative estimate by Incusim.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Indicative mid-career range (our estimate, not yet checked against an official source). Incusim estimate
🇺🇸 United States
Closest US category: Health information technologists and medical registrars. Median pay; low and high are the 10th and 90th percentiles. US Bureau of Labor Statistics, May 2025
🇨🇦 Canada
Closest Job Bank occupation: Health information management technician. Hourly wage low/median/high x 2,080 hours. Job Bank (Government of Canada), 2023-2024
Yearly pay before tax. UK, US and Canada figures come from the official sources named on each card. Nigeria has no official salary survey, so those are our indicative estimates. Real pay depends on the employer, the place, your skills and experience.
🛠️ What you actually do
- Manage digital patient records
- Keep health data safe and private
- Train staff to use hospital software
- Study data to spot health trends
- Connect hospital systems so they can share information
⚡ Skills you'll need
- Computer skills
- Data analysis
- Attention to detail
- Communication
- Problem solving
Get ready at school
🇳🇬 Nigeria
- Short courses in data analysis and hospital software
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- NHS digital, clinical coding or health records entry jobs, with training
- Apprenticeships in data or IT within the NHS
🇺🇸 United States
- Start as a medical records or coding specialist
- Community college certificate in health IT
🇨🇦 Canada
- Start as a health records clerk or coder
- Short courses in data analysis and hospital software
🗺️ Your path to this career
- 1Study Mathematics and Computer Studies in school
- 2Take a degree in Health Information Management or Computer Science
- 3Learn data tools like spreadsheets and databases
- 4Join a hospital or health-tech company
- 5Move into data analysis or system management
⏰ A day in the life
You help a new nurse log into the hospital's digital records, fix a duplicate patient file, then build a simple chart showing how many patients came to the clinic each week.