I always enjoy reading your column. As a recruiter and talking to Healthcare organizations that are looking for IT folks (whether programmer or management), it seems to be they always want experience in a healthcare organization and won’t move from that position.
Before my recruiting days, I also managed Programmers and a Data Center. I too initially wanted to hire experience from my Industry, but somewhere along the way, I figured out that I was missing out on some great Programming talent. I leaned that it’s easier to teach my industry than to teach them programming. And along with outside Industry experience came enlightment about new and better ways to approach problems.
Very insightful article.