There is a lot of potential for software sales jobs in the healthcare sector. New technologies are constantly being developed just for the field, or applied to the sector. One example is cloud computing. Health organisations like many others are considering how to utilise this development to their advantage.

The core of developments in IT is based around cost cutting, especially in relation to the NHS. So projects like that pioneered at John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford are great. Here a new blood transfusion method uses barcodes, wireless and hand held devices to track supplies and reduce the dependence on nurses’ time. It is saving the Trust £1.1 million a year.

It’s a complicated field, with many different stakeholders and concerns. One of the key problems experienced with the NHS National Project for IT was the fragmentation of local services, meaning having any unified systems is near impossible. Future IT projects will need to tackle this problem head on.