Thursday, May 10th, 2012 at 09:18
The newly revised Health IT Dashboard presents key information and data to support the monitoring of the impact of federal policies, programs, and research activities related to health IT.
The new Dashboard provides summary information about all ONC HITECH grant programs and detailed information on Regional Extension Centers and the Community College Consortia which serves to educate Health IT Professionals.
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Thursday, February 9th, 2012 at 17:53
Well it’s nice to hear a success story about a college grad getting a job. What’s remarkable about this story is that most hospitals refuse to hire healthcare I.T. folks unless they have years of healthcare experience and/or specific vendor experience. Most of the students that graduate from these programs do not have this experience, and though they spend a lot of time getting an education, they still face a tough time getting a job.
One of the toughest issues is getting by the robots in the human resources department that only know how to screen candidates based on “keywords” in a resume. Plus, all the lousy software, like Taleo, they are using only allows recruiters to search resumes on specific keywords. Thus, hospitals are missing a lot of good candidates due to their automated systems and their myopic… “You don’t have Epic experience” or “You don’t have any healthcare experience”. Hockey Puck I say!!!!
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Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012 at 16:19
Despite the fact that she has worked as an information technology analyst for some 15 years, when Soussan Ahmadi (side note – Soussan was one of my students in the MEDIT 235 class that I taught at Bellevue College) found herself unemployed last year, she realized that she needed to dramatically expand her technological expertise—and no field looked as promising as health information technology.
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Sunday, January 1st, 2012 at 16:17
In this video Cypress College Health Information Technology Program Director, Rosalie Majid discusses the Healthcare Information Technology job market. She mostly talks about the Health Information Management type of position though. If you want more information on careers more related to health information exchanges go to this article by Information Week on how the various ...
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Monday, April 25th, 2011 at 16:29
The Community College Consortia Program is intended to educate IT professionals in health care programs. There are a lot of people needed to help implement all these systems that are required if hospitals and providers are going to achieve meaningful use.
The programs are designed for professionals with an IT or health care background and ...
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Friday, December 24th, 2010 at 14:50
December 16, 2010
AtlantiCare, a $700M financially stable integrated health care system, has an exciting newly created position for a Director, Health Information Exchange (HIE) to develop and implement a new HIE. The system, located in southern New Jersey near the shore has been recognized for quality as a Baldrige and Magnet facility. AtlantiCare is ...
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Thursday, September 16th, 2010 at 19:02
HITECH and Funding Opportunities
http://healthit.hhs.gov/portal/server.pt/community/healthit_hhs_gov__hitech_and_funding_opportunities/1310
The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act amends Title XXX of the Public Health Service Act by adding a number of funding opportunities to advance health information technology. As funding opportunities were awarded the relevant programmatic information was made available on the HITECH Program section of this site.There ...
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