When you think about what types of companies might be hiring HIT employees, you probably automatically think of hospitals. Maybe after another second of thought, you’ll flash on doctors' offices. But the market for skilled HIT professionals is much broader than you may realize. There...
It should come as a surprise to no one in the healthcare IT industry that hospital staff requirements have ballooned over the past few years and that providers are facing severe challenges in filling those empty positions. Informationweek recently reported that roughly two-thirds of healthcare...
Do you know the quickest way to advance your career in health IT? The answer is to specialize. In almost any industry--not just health IT--specialists are in higher demand and command higher salaries because of their expertly-focused knowledge. As a health IT professional, you've already...
Not surprisingly, the use of Smartphones and other mobile devices has taken the health IT industry by storm. According to a December 2011 study by the Ponemon Institute, 81% of doctors use a Smartphone to access patient information; that's up from 72% in 2010. The...
While unemployment continues to saturate the nation's working classes, there has been one field within healthcare where the demand has been higher than the supply: health information technology. According to a survey by IT management firm Computer Economics, 61 percent of healthcare organizations are increasing health...