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HIEs have job openings, but few are hiring grads of ONC training programs
Health information exchanges (HIEs) have plenty of openings for qualified IT workers, but tend to avoid graduates of federal training programs authorized by the HITECH Act. Those are among the
Using your hospital's EMR implementation to your advantage
Like it or not, if you work for a hospital you will be involved in an EMR implementation project in one way or another--sooner than later. This fact has many hospital employees squirming, for it
ONC to give two more Beacon Communities grants
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology on Wednesday announced that it will give two additional awards, worth nearly $30.4 million combined, in its Beacon Communities
Gartner analyst: Health CIOs must develop mobile strategies soon
Despite all sorts of forecasts indicating that usage of mobile and wireless technologies will skyrocket in the coming years, many healthcare CIOs have not implemented strategies to accommodate new
Survey: Older, wealthier patients more likely to see docs with EMRs
The conventional wisdom is that younger doctors are more likely to use EMRs than their more senior counterparts--at least when the relative newcomers have a say in the buying decision. But does
Stimulus creates huge demand for HIT professionals
With all the new money flowing into health IT, particularly with the $35 billion or so in federal money (a net $19 billion after accounting for expected efficiency savings) for electronic health
After the stimulus comes an EMR hiring boom
The equation is simple enough: billions of dollars equals lots of jobs. And so the federal stimulus for health IT is leading prognosticators to predict a hiring boom in the EMR market, as vendors and
