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Location, Location, Location – A Traveling Healthcare IT Consultant’s Life from a Road’s View

Posted on18. May, 2012 by Shirley Corsey.

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For over two years here at HealthcareITToday, I have chronicled my experiences as a Vendor Certified Healthcare Information Technology Consultant – providing details, advice, and what my work life is like, specifically in the Electronic Medical Records (EMR) job industry from my first hand knowledge. Most of this information I have provided has been based mainly from my sometimes [...]

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Lessons from the Road

Posted on11. May, 2012 by Cassie Thiessen.

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Hello from Chicago, IL dear readership! In a recent blog post on wastefulness, I told you all that I would be moving from Boise, ID to Chicago, IL for my job as a Recruiter with Impact Advisors. I’m pleased to announce that I made it safe and sound. However, like any journey or implementation for [...]

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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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Job Change – Yipes!

Posted on29. Mar, 2012 by Cassie Thiessen.

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As many of you, dear readership, know, I just recently changed jobs and just passed the two month mark of tenure with my new firm. As some quick background, I have been a Recruiter my whole career and have worked in Healthcare IT for the past three years. Prior to joining my new and totally [...]

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To The Rescue! – Healthcare IT “Pararescue Jumpers”

Posted on16. Feb, 2012 by Shirley Corsey.

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Pararescuemen are United States Air Force Special Operations Command and Air Combat Command operatives tasked with recovery and medical treatment of personnel in humanitarian and combat environments. They are the only members of the DoD specifically organized, trained and equipped to conduct personnel recovery operations in hostile or denied areas as a primary mission. Also [...]

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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 [...]