Healthcare IT Today

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 Six Degrees of EMR Healthcare IT Consultants – It’s A Small World After All!

Posted on01. Nov, 2011 by Shirley Corsey.

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One of the MOST interesting things I have discovered is how there is a human connection to just about every hospital and/or clinic location I have been assigned over these past 7 years as a nationwide, traveling Electronic Medical Records (EMR) Consultant. It’s like the Six degrees of separation and the game it’s based on, [...]

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Wanted: Healthcare IT Renaissance Men/Women

Posted on30. Sep, 2011 by Gwen Darling.

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I often get calls and emails from current and aspiring Healthcare IT colleagues, asking for my take on what I feel are the most promising career paths for professionals in our industry. There will always be a need for the teams of professionals who build, implement, train, maintain, and analyze, but I’m starting to see [...]

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Wanted: Senior Manager, Health Plan Technology

Posted on19. Aug, 2011 by Gwen Darling.

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Offered by Deloitte ~ Health Plans Health Plans face a number of unique environmental pressures that affect the way they will conduct business today and in the future – among them a need for increased privacy and security, an intense focus on risk management, access to capital, efforts to consolidate and streamline IT functions, the [...]

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Healthcare IT Consultants: How to Fly SW Airlines – Without Paying An Extra $10

Posted on05. Jul, 2011 by Cassie Thiessen.

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For all those of us who are or have been traveling consultants or those that have ever clicked “Road Warrior” on a job board, what is the greatest bonus you can think of in exchange for all the pain? By pain, I am referring to hours of airports with bad and expensive food and hours [...]

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Employee Recognition – I See You!

Posted on20. Jun, 2011 by Cassie Thiessen.

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Over the past years, the healthcare information technology industry has experienced an economic boom specifically correlated to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) financial incentives for Electronic Medical Record (EMR) implementation. For those of us working in companies and closely-related industries within healthcare information technology, we have also noticed. It seems as though every [...]