Career Overlap Transition record
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Clinical informatics manager to clinical coder

A clinical informatics manager already meets 38% of what the clinical coder role asks for. The move turns on 7 required skills not yet in the profile.

Fig. 1 · Skill transfer ESCO v1.2.1 · directional
From clinical informatics manager
38 % overlap
Distant match
To clinical coder
8 You already bring
7 Still to learn
23 Skills in the target role2
Learning distance Substantial retraining

57.9/ 100

1 How much of what a clinical coder is expected to do is already part of a clinical informatics manager’s work. Directional: the figure for the reverse move differs, because moving into a speciality is not the same problem as moving out of one. 2 Every skill the clinical coder role is recorded as needing, required and optional together. What these numbers mean.

Why

Why this move works

A clinical coder role treats 5 of its required skills as things a clinical informatics manager already does. You would walk in with these on day one.

  • adhere to organisational guidelines
  • communicate in healthcare
  • follow clinical guidelines
  • perform clinical coding procedures
  • review patient's medical data

What stands in the way is 7 required skills the profile does not yet cover. Table 3 groups them; Table 4 says which to take first.

Table 2

Table 2 · What you already bring

Of the 8 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A clinical coder role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a clinical informatics manager background worth leading with.

Skill the target role also needs Area
  • already held review patient's medical data information skills
  • already held perform clinical coding procedures information skills
  • already held healthcare analytics health and welfare
  • already held collect healthcare user's general data information skills
  • already held medical informatics health and welfare
  • already held follow clinical guidelines assisting and caring

All 8 carried skills, including the 5 the clinical coder role treats as required.

Table 3

Table 3 · What you may need to learn

The 15 missing skills fall into 8 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, numbered in the order worth working in. Areas carrying the most required skills come first, and inside each one the required skills sit above the optional ones. Nothing here is a verdict on you: it is a list of what this particular job asks for that your current one does not.

Skill to pick up Tier
01 health and welfare 3 required, 2 supplementary
  • still to learn clinical coding required
  • still to learn professional documentation in health care required
  • still to learn medical terminology required
  • optional, not held human anatomy optional
  • optional, not held human physiology optional
02 information skills 1 required, 2 supplementary
  • still to learn manage healthcare users' data required
  • optional, not held archive healthcare users' records optional
  • optional, not held collect statistics on medical records optional
03 working with computers 1 required, 1 supplementary
  • still to learn use electronic health records management system required
  • optional, not held manage digital documents optional
04 assisting and caring 1 required
  • still to learn maintain healthcare user data confidentiality required
05 social sciences, journalism and information 1 required
  • still to learn document management required
06 business, administration and law 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held health records management optional

2 further areas in the appendix

Table 4

Table 4 · Where to start

The 3 entries a clinical coder role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.

Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.

Appendix

Appendix · The rest of the record

All 8 skills that carry over
Skill Type
  • already held adhere to organisational guidelines skill
  • already held communicate in healthcare skill
  • already held follow clinical guidelines skill
  • already held perform clinical coding procedures skill
  • already held review patient's medical data skill
  • already held collect healthcare user's general data skill
  • already held healthcare analytics knowledge
  • already held medical informatics knowledge
The 2 learning areas not shown above
Skill to pick up Tier
07 management skills 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held identify patients' medical records optional
08 services 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held health care system optional
8 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
Skill to pick up Tier
  • optional, not held archive healthcare users' records optional
  • optional, not held collect statistics on medical records optional
  • optional, not held health records management optional
  • optional, not held identify patients' medical records optional
  • optional, not held health care system optional
  • optional, not held human anatomy optional
  • optional, not held human physiology optional
  • optional, not held manage digital documents optional
51 held skills the clinical coder role does not ask for
Skill Type
  • not needed by the target role IBM InfoSphere DataStage knowledge
  • not needed by the target role IBM InfoSphere Information Server knowledge
  • not needed by the target role Informatica PowerCenter knowledge
  • not needed by the target role Oracle Data Integrator knowledge
  • not needed by the target role Oracle Warehouse Builder knowledge
  • not needed by the target role Pentaho Data Integration knowledge
  • not needed by the target role QlikView Expressor knowledge
  • not needed by the target role SAP Data Services knowledge
  • not needed by the target role SQL Server Integration Services knowledge
  • not needed by the target role advise on training courses skill
  • not needed by the target role analyse large-scale data in healthcare skill
  • not needed by the target role analytical methods in biomedical sciences knowledge
  • not needed by the target role apply good clinical practices skill
  • not needed by the target role apply organisational techniques skill
  • not needed by the target role audit techniques knowledge
  • not needed by the target role clinical reports knowledge
  • not needed by the target role clinical science knowledge
  • not needed by the target role communicate in foreign languages with health service providers skill
  • not needed by the target role comply with legislation related to health care skill
  • not needed by the target role comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice skill
  • not needed by the target role computer science knowledge
  • not needed by the target role conditions for professional practice of clinical psychology knowledge
  • not needed by the target role conduct clinical software research skill
  • not needed by the target role contribute to continuity of health care skill
  • not needed by the target role contribute to public health campaigns skill
  • not needed by the target role creation of clinical psychological opinions knowledge
  • not needed by the target role data extraction, transformation and loading tools knowledge
  • not needed by the target role data storage knowledge
  • not needed by the target role database knowledge
  • not needed by the target role drug interaction management knowledge
  • not needed by the target role health care occupation-specific ethics knowledge
  • not needed by the target role health psychology knowledge
  • not needed by the target role implement strategic planning skill
  • not needed by the target role inform policy makers on health-related challenges skill
  • not needed by the target role manage budgets skill
  • not needed by the target role manage healthcare staff knowledge
  • not needed by the target role manage project metrics skill
  • not needed by the target role manage workflow processes skill
  • not needed by the target role meet deadlines skill
  • not needed by the target role multi-professional cooperation in health care knowledge

11 further entries not listed here

8 gaps that are knowledge rather than practice

Knowledge gaps usually close through study. Practical skill gaps usually need something you can point at.

Skill to pick up Tier
  • still to learn clinical coding required
  • still to learn document management required
  • still to learn professional documentation in health care required
  • still to learn medical terminology required
  • optional, not held health records management optional
  • optional, not held health care system optional
  • optional, not held human anatomy optional
  • optional, not held human physiology optional
Index

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FAQ

Common questions about this move

Can a clinical informatics manager become a clinical coder?

Yes, and it is a substantial move. A clinical informatics manager already covers 38% of what a clinical coder is expected to do: 8 skills carry over, 5 of which the clinical coder role treats as required.

What skills does a clinical informatics manager need to become a clinical coder?

7 required skills are missing, plus 8 optional ones. They fall into 8 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, led by health and welfare. The single most important is clinical coding.

How hard is the move from clinical informatics manager to clinical coder?

Its learning distance is 57.9 out of 100, which is the substantial band. That accounts for both how much is missing and how specialised those skills are.

Note

How this record was compiled

Both occupations are taken from ESCO, which lists the skills and knowledge each occupation is expected to have and marks every one required or optional. Nothing here is a prediction about hiring, and nothing here knows that a particular employer wants a particular certificate. Treat Table 3 as a starting point for your own research rather than a syllabus. The full method states what these figures can and cannot tell you.