The healthcare market is considered resistant to economic recession, but that doesn't mean it's any easier to hire and keep good workers when dollars are in short supply. Hospitals and clinics often outsource business processes such as clinical documentation and billing and revenue cycle, while working to retain care professionals and other core staff. Despite recent economic downturn, healthcare remains one of the fastest-growing job sectors in the United States.
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The Nemours children's healthcare system is using cloud technology from Redwood Shores, Calif.-based Saba to enable enterprise-wide learning and compliance with its Epic electronic medical record system.
January 9, 2012
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QuadraMed announced this week it had reached an agreement with NCR Corporation to acquire NCR healthcare solutions -- including its patient access software, payment manager and other technologies -- for an undisclosed sum.
January 6, 2012
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Experts predict an upswing in mobile usage, more data breaches and new risks for social media in the year ahead. Eleven industry observers suggest some healthcare data trends to look for in 2012.
January 6, 2012
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Ochsner Health System, southeast Louisiana's largest nonprofit, academic, multi-specialty, healthcare delivery system, is taking a Hollywood-style approach to filling available healthcare IT jobs: auditions.
January 4, 2012
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Johns Hopkins Medicine International (JHI), the international arm of Johns Hopkins Medicine of Baltimore, Maryland, and the Ministry of Health of Kuwait (MOH) have signed a five-year agreement that calls for JHI to assist Kuwait in improving healthcare delivery in Kuwait.
December 28, 2011
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Letters of intent are due today from those interested in participating in the CMS Innovation Center's Health Care Innovation Challenge, which promises up to $1 billion for new ideas that improve care, shift incentives and help train a newly-focused healthcare workforce.
December 19, 2011
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KLAS has unveiled its annual "Best in KLAS Awards" for software and professional services in 2011, ranking the best-performing healthcare IT vendors in more than 100 market segments based on ratings from over 18,000 interviews with healthcare providers.
December 16, 2011
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From social media gurus to CKOs, certain positions never seen in the market will make an impact in the year to come. Guillermo Moreno gives us six new HIT positions in 2012.
December 9, 2011
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Despite concerns that the current drop in unemployment is temporary, the long-term numbers suggest that recent employment statistics can be attributed to an overall recovery pattern -- and health IT is among the leading markets in that recovery, according to MedZilla.com.
December 8, 2011
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Gartner has ranked Dublin, Ohio-based Cardinal Health number one in its third annual Healthcare Supply Chain Top 25. Cardinal ousts med-surg supplier Owens & Minor, which dropped to fifth place.
December 7, 2011
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If any era demanded healthcare IT consultants, it’s this one. There is a greater need for expertise in more areas today than at any time in the past. The rapid pace of technology development, combined with a litany of new operational and regulatory initiatives, has left provider organizations dismayed, stressed out and exhausted.
December 6, 2011
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The new health IT jobs that were promised as part of the government’s big push toward digital medical records are there, and there are plenty of job seekers to fill them, but are they the right people for the jobs?
December 5, 2011
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You’d think it would be an easy fill as there are plenty of job seekers on the market, but the economy impacts employers' ability to hire the right candidate.
September 8, 2011
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Mentors can help direct us and guide us through career paths that they themselves have taken and can help us to better familiarize ourselves with expectations, obstacles and accomplishments achieved through a certain path.
September 5, 2011
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Trade shows, conferences, networking events…these are all prime opportunities to grease the opportunity wheel.
September 2, 2011
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Before we dive in, it is important to ensure we understand some of the characteristics of the Millennial Generation. The characteristics carry a strong mix of using technology, incorporating social life into technology, being distinct while shielding some it, and embracing some healthy traits.
August 30, 2011
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HIMSS Career Services offers a variety of supporting tools in support of our member’s growth in the health IT profession.
August 29, 2011
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I interact with a number of job seekers, many of whom are new to healthcare, and I hear the same thing over and over again: “I earned a degree [or certificate], but no one wants to hire me because I don’t have healthcare experience.”
August 26, 2011
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Hospitals and health systems often purchase acuity systems as a valuable tool to allocate nursing resources based on patient care needs. However, these organizations don’t always use their acuity systems to their full capability.
August 23, 2011
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HIMSS has a very strong foundation and history of educating its membership on the many healthcare industry topics we have seen past, present and in the future health ideals in discussion today.
August 22, 2011
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There has been significant debate over how much information an employer should be privy to when researching a candidate. Should they do an Internet search and glimpse at your Facebook profile? Is this legal or even ethical?
August 18, 2011
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Partners Health Care (the dominant provider network in Greater Boston) and Neighborhood Health Plan (a local mostly-Medicaid HMO) just announced that the former intends to acquire the latter, and maintain it as a separate operating entity.
August 15, 2011
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We are seeing more and more on line opportunities to post our resumes whether it is anonymously or otherwise.
August 15, 2011
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More than once employers have asked me what they should include in a job posting and if there is any space limitation.
August 11, 2011
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