Just FYI - SM Posted: Aug 14th, 2016 - 12:42 am In Reply to: Trying to decide... - April06
Because you are looking at this from the outside in, it appears that all these choices are completely different paths and that you have to decide on one of them now. You are not completely clear that they are all part of the same field or on how to get into that field.
Health Information Management/Administration is the management or administration of health information, not people. There are HIM jobs in the management of health information departments or supervision of people who work there, but that is not what everyone in that field does. Community college HIT programs often overemphasize the "you can be a manager" aspect to appeal to students, but most jobs in HIM are not supervisory.
Cancer registrar is a field within HIM, as is coding. There are far fewer jobs in cancer registries than in coding, and training in cancer registry limits you to those jobs, which pay lower on the average than coding.
This is not an either/or decision. You can begin with coding training and continue in HIM once you have a job. If you choose a good program, that usually works out to be the most cost-effective and best-paying option.
There is a career map on the AHIMA website. You should look at it.
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