We’re on a mission to give back to the community we work in, and we base it on the Salesforce.com Foundation’s 1/1/1 model. The Salesforce.com 1/1/1 philanthropic approach leverages the company’s “people, technology and resources to build collective knowledge and enable action to improve communities throughout the world.” In essence, Salesforce.com helps its people find meaningful ways […]
Still pursuing that New Year's resolution? The number one New Year's resolution is losing weight, but the second most popular resolution is getting organized, according to a survey by the University of Scranton Journal of Clinical Psychology. It makes sense - if you were organized, you'd be less distracted, feel less stress and even be […]
Salary-wise, 2013 was a good year to be a HIT professional. Over two-thirds of respondents to an annual compensation survey of healthcare IT workers said their pay increased last year by an average of 4.16%. Executive managers in HIT saw the biggest boost with an average increase of 6.10%. Senior management was next in line […]
More and more hospitals are merging. The analysts at Moody’s Investors Service recently pointed to the Accountable Care Act (ACA) as a catalyst for hospital merger activity. But even before ACA, the trend toward supersized hospitals and mega health systems was well underway. As highlighted in the NY Times, hospital mergers have more than doubled […]
One sign of success for EMR software giant Epic Systems is the continued expansion of its sprawling campus in Verona, Wis., just outside of Madison. As reported in the Wisconsin State Journal, Epic recently opened three new office buildings that “have the appearance of a bucolic farm. “A white farmhouse with a wrap-around porch leads […]