As the technology industry continues to skyrocket, every profession is seeing an increase in technological dependence. In other words, technology, and inevitably coding, can tie into almost all professions, whether the hard skills themselves or the conceptualizations. This is even true in the world of Healthcare.  

The world of healthcare varies between each sub profession, but one uniting factor is the tremendous benefits that computer science knowledge can bring. On a broad scale, learning basic computer science skills can help the healthcare industry develop better patient information portals, improved billing systems, and even improve the functional aspects of a practice or hospital. But focusing on specific fields, the hard knowledge of computer science provides many meaningful applications for physicians. people have found that those who are comfortable with and knowledgeable in the use of technology are more likely to bring different beneficial technological advancements into their workplaces. For healthcare professionals, this could mean bringing new surgical technologies into the operating room, creating the potential to improve and save more lives. Physical therapists can gain better technologies that help their patients make speedy recoveries, and those who work with prosthetics can help drastically improve someone’s quality of life with new and improved prosthetic technologies. The possibilities are endless, and with a solid understanding of technology and computer programming, new opportunities for success emerge.   

Not only do the traditional skills or computer science prove useful in the medical industry, but the methodology and skills behind coding prove useful as well. Programming often teaches to break bigger problems into smaller, more centralized issues, and this practice directly translates to medicine. Physicians who learned programming are more likely to implement this way of thinking in their careers. When faced with a complicated patient with a severe health issue, the doctor can break the issue into smaller, more manageable problems, and treat the patient more efficiently, without missing any major issues. Similarly, coding also implements a skill called memorization, or learning from prior mistakes and using prior solutions to solve the problem at hand. This has many implications in medicine as well. For instance, if a healthcare professional is faced with the same disease multiple times, they are likely to treat it relatively the same. For programmers, this is second nature, and for doctors, this is a crucial skill to have.   

In the end, as the tech industry grows, it crosses the barrier between itself and other fields, and it creates great promise for healthcare professionals who learn to code. From direct patient impact to problem-solving skills, coding has many implementations in the healthcare industry. To facilitate these skills, we should all learn computer science, no matter what profession we want to enter.