Speaking as someone who's worked in 3 different healthcare software companies (2 large Co's and 1 startup), you'll be far ahead of your competition in the healt

Speaking as someone who's worked in 3 different healthcare software companies (2 large Co's and 1 startup), you'll be far ahead of your competition in the healthcare space if you know how to code. Healthcare is full of Product Managers and CxO's who have never written code and I think it's one of the things that holds the industry back from adopting newer technologies, streamlining processes, and attracting talent. The challenges you mentioned (EMRs, HIPAA) require a lot less understanding of coding and more understanding of how data is structured. Suffice to say if you can read a spreadsheet, you can understand (with a little mental ninjitsu) how a HIPPA or EMR is structured. If I were a Healthcare product manager with CEO aspirations, I would learn the following: * SQL (real SQL, not drag and drop queries in Access) * Ruby or Python (High level and easy first languages rules) * Java or C# (because the industry speaks these almost exclusively) * HTML/CSS/Javascript (Healthcare didn't jump into the web with both feet like many industries, so you can learn these last).