Healthcare IT Today

Guide to Successfully Working as a Consultant in the Healthcare IT Industry – Part One

Posted on13. Apr, 2012 by David Kushan.

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If you missed my Intro blog post to this series, here’s the link. First let me say that there is a difference between consulting and staff augmentation (contracting). For the sake of this guide, I am not going to spend time differentiating between the two. For this guide, I am going to define consulting around [...]

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Guide to Successfully Working as a Consultant in the Healthcare IT Industry – Intro

Posted on09. Feb, 2012 by David Kushan.

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As the Healthcare IT market has heated up, so has the demand for new jobs to be filled. I have been in staffing (permanent placement and contract) for 19 years. Fifteen of these years have been in the healthcare clinical application space. In all of this time I have not seen the market go from [...]

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Projecting Demand For Your Skills

Posted on06. Jan, 2012 by David Kushan.

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When looking to get into a new marketplace where you think there will be high demand, you want to consider a few obvious things: How difficult will it be to break into the new market? How long will the demand last? Will you be better off than if you just stay in the market you [...]

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Changing Your Healthcare IT Sellable Skill Set

Posted on25. Nov, 2011 by David Kushan.

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As a consultant, you need to know your sellable skill set or knowledge base. And just as importantly, you have to be able to package yourself in a way that the people who are buying your services will be comfortable in engaging you. I decided to write this particular post because of the same question [...]

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The Demise of Non-Solicitation Agreements – A Double-Edged Sword for Healthcare IT?

Posted on14. Apr, 2011 by David Kushan.

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Nothing can be more disruptive to an organization’s plans than to lose a key person. Because of this, many times partnering organizations, vendor/clients, client/client, and even competing organizations will put formal and informal “agreements” in place not to hire each other’s employees. These types of agreements have been in place for many years within various [...]

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Can Being Happy At Your Job Be Bad For Your Career?

Posted on30. Mar, 2011 by David Kushan.

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Can being happy at your job be bad for your career? Well, that depends what your mindset is when you are happy with your job. And for a good percentage of people, it definitely is. As I have discussed in past posts, there are certainly times when you are going to be in “good job mode” [...]