Hiring and staffing for an Epic project is a significant undertaking, as outlined in our new eBook, Building an Epic Team. But after Go Live, hospitals and health systems face a different challenge: retaining their top Epic staff members for the long-haul. “If you haven’t done your homework to retain your talent, you’re taking your eye […]
Stack Overflow touts their 2016 survey as the most comprehensive developer survey ever conducted. And who are we to argue? Stack is a web-based community of 4.7 million programmers who post and answer questions, sharing advice and code on a reddit-style bulletin board, and their entire community is invited to participate in their annual survey. […]
Hospitals evaluating their revenue cycle management strategies may wish they had a crystal ball at their disposal. Healthcare IT Leaders National Accounts Director Joe Mauro says institutions are trying to predict the impact of Accountable Care reimbursement models as they plan for the future. “We’re moving away from fee-for-service to a model where hospitals get paid […]
Healthcare CEOs and CIOs, their IT consultants, outsourced services and other vendors are investing considerable time and resources improving data security, with a sharp focus on protected healthcare information (PHI). No surprise, since executives for all these organizations are accountable for the PHI data they touch, regardless of where a breach may surface along the […]
In our quest to find the best Cerner-focused Twitter accounts, we found a lot of Cerner employees—and a lot of tweeting about Kansas City barbeque and the World Champion Royals baseball team. But we also found plenty of great content about the company and its offerings, Cerner’s innovation at its client hospitals, and some executive […]
Cupid may sound like a dating website, but its day-to-day use in a cardiology setting is more functional than romantic. Epic Cupid is Epic Systems’ cardiovascular information system module, providing order entry, scheduling, procedure documentation and structured reporting for cardiology. It also handles associated functions such as analytical reporting, results communication and charging. Cupid (originally […]
In a workday filled with big projects, how much time do you leave for big thinking? Probably not much if you’re a typical healthcare IT professional working in what author Daniel Forrester calls “a constant fog of action and immediacy.” Here’s our suggestion to cut through the fog: take a daily TED break. For the […]
The decision to buy and implement an Epic Systems electronic health record (EHR) is typically one of the largest strategic investments a hospital or health system will make. With Epic at the center of your patient care strategy, you will want to hire the best and brightest Epic-skilled talent you can find. But here's the […]
Consultant Advisor Candace Bush has a lengthy history in human resources and recruiting, having held various roles in the industry for 27 years. A graduate of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and Chattanooga native, Candace moved to Atlanta in 1998 to "be in the big city," and she's been matching people all over the […]
To stay current on all the latest job opportunities at Healthcare IT Leaders, you could bookmark our job page and visit our website every single day. But that seems like a lot of work. That's why we came up with Job Alerts, a quick and easy way to get all of our freshest jobs delivered right to your […]
Cerner Corporation, by almost any measure, is on a roll. The world’s largest publicly traded health information technology company recently announced record results for 2015—its best year ever in terms of bookings, revenue and new business. Last year saw Cerner acquire a major rival, Siemens AG, and outbid another rival, Epic Systems, to win the […]
Cerner consultants and other health IT contractors understand their marketability is strongly linked to the relative popularity of the vendor software that they’re trained on. Epic consultants have seen their stock rise over the past five years, in parallel with Epic market share, while consultants skilled in other EMRs, like McKesson, have seen opportunities shrink. […]