It’s been overlooked — it’s received very little coverage by the popular press — but it’s worth repeating: one benefit of the health care reform legislation will be: enhanced “job mobility.” Employee mobility is one of those terms that probably most Ameri...
Read More →If you’ve heard that healthcare IT is the most promising area of job growth in information technology, there’s a reason. In recent years, the job growth spotlight has often been targeted at healthcare job growth generally and healthcare IT job sector growth specifically. In fact, a ...
Read More →In spite of the economic slowdown, IT, or information technology, is just about the fastest growing markets in the United States today. Because IT has a crucial role in the smooth functioning of many other market sectors, the job options for competent IT professionals are increasing day by day. Thou...
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Here is the third and final part of my healthcare IT skills series. This series was meant as an overview to guide an IT consultant/small business IT provider in the proper direction to get started in the healthcare IT industry. We are by no means finished on the theme of healthcare IT, but to w...
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Here is part two of my Healthcare IT skills assessment enumerating the specialized skills that sets the healthcare IT technician apart from average tech. Part one detailed HL7 and IT security skills. Now we’ll get into the meat of health IT skills. Security Continued… I may sound like a broken ...
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I once read a blog post that said “Healthcare IT is neither ‘healthcare’ nor ‘IT’.” It sounds strange and even a bit funny, but it’s true. Healthcare IT (HIT) is its own branch of the information technology world. Yes, basic IT skills are necessary, but when working in a healthcare en...
Read More →Interesting story by Jay Greene in Crain’s this week about IT professionals in the health care biz…. A shortage of highly specialized health care information-technology workers has led several health care systems to forge relationships with community colleges and universities to offer...
Read More →A move to electronic heath records has spurred Rasmussen College and other educational institutions to develop programs that train students for careers working with those systems. Digitization of medial records has been part of larger health care reform initiatives at both the state and national le...
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