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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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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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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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2011 Electronic Medical Records (EMR) Systems “Have come a long way, baby” – Thanks to Nurses!

Posted on25. Jul, 2011 by Shirley Corsey.

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Dear Cassie Thiessen: I just completed reading your post Patient Health IT Observations and Thanks to Nurses! …Kudos to you Cassie regarding this salute to nurses! You have inspired me to spend a couple hours this morning in writing this blog (also related to thanking nurses, but from my perspective as a “non-clinical” Healthcare IT (EMR) [...]

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The Chicken or The Egg – What came first? The EMR Job or EMR Vendor Certification – What came first?

Posted on19. Jul, 2011 by Shirley Corsey.

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The EMR Job came first! I know, I know this is a long blog title (and hold on folks, this is also a very lengthy blog article as well) – but I felt there was no getting around it. Especially based on the most current blogger audience replies to my most popular (and Healthcare IT Today’s most [...]

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Can a Blog Accelerate Your Career?

Posted on13. Jul, 2011 by Joe Lavelle.

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Why do so many professionals and businesses now find it critical to have an active blog built into their websites? If you are writing as part of your career plan, then you likely are not publishing posts just for your own satisfaction or to make your mom proud when you show it off over Thanksgiving (although making Mom proud is never a bad thing). The question then becomes–is having a blog a good way to accelerate your career?