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Your AI in Healthcare plan

Tell us where you are and where you want to go. Your plan skips what you've already earned and shows the next credentials for your level.

1 Where are you now?
2 What do you want next?
3 What do you already have? Check all that apply
4 Where do you work?
5 What can you spend?
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Student or new to healthcare · Get a healthcare job

Answer question 1 to tailor this plan to your level.

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Three ways in

Health information and coding

Months to 2 yearsPaid entry roles

Best if You want an administrative path into healthcare.

RHIT needs an accredited associate degree; AAPC CPC is an exam based coding credential.

BLS notes AI coding tools may affect demand for coders, so pair coding with AI and data skills.

Already clinical

Hours to weeksKeep your role

Best if Nurses, assistants and clinicians adding AI skills.

Free AI courses from Elsevier and AMA, some with contact hours, fit around shifts.

Confirm CE or contact hour acceptance with your board or employer.

Your steps

4 steps for you

  1. Learn how generative AI works

    2 to 6 hoursFree

    Start with a free course that explains what AI tools can and cannot do, so every AI feature in your work tools makes sense.

    • Take Anthropic AI Fluency or OpenAI Academy AI Foundations; both give a free certificate or badge.
    • Prefer a Google name on it? Google AI Essentials is a paid Coursera course.

  2. Take free AI courses built for healthcare

    1 to 4 hours eachFree

    Healthcare specific AI courses cover safety, bias and privacy as well as tools. Elsevier's nursing course carries 2 contact hours at no cost.

    • Elsevier Gen AI Academy for Nurses: free, 2 NCPD contact hours.
    • AMA ChangeMedEd AI in Health Care series: free.
    • Elsevier Gen AI Academy for Health: free course.

  3. Earn a core health information credential

    Months, with education$229 to $499 exam

    The field credentials employers recognize for health information and coding work.

    • RHIT: $229 AHIMA members, $299 others; needs an accredited associate degree in health information.
    • AAPC CPC: $425 for one attempt, $499 for two.

  4. Put it all on LinkedIn

    5 minutes per credentialFree

    Use the Add to LinkedIn button on any certification on this page. It fills in the name and issuer under Licenses & certifications.

    • Add each credential with the month you earned it.
    • Share a short post when you pass one; the post text is written for you.
Job outlook
Health services managers
$123,860 median
24% growth to 2035
Health info technologists
$68,020 median
16% growth to 2035
Medical records specialists
$51,140 median
8% growth to 2035
AI note
Coding is changing
BLS says AI coding tools may affect demand

Source: BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook: medical and health services managers; health information technologists; medical records specialists ↗

Plan sources · checked Oct 14, 2026BLS: medical and health services managers ↗BLS: medical records specialists ↗BLS: health information technologists and medical registrars ↗

Pay and outlook are national BLS figures. BLS says adoption of AI powered coding tools may affect demand for medical records specialists. AI training does not change who is licensed to provide care. Your answers stay in your browser.

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