Former HP Software worldwide quality evangelist leads QAT consulting practice focused on healthcare software and clients Healthcare IT Leaders today announced the hire of Michael Cooper as Chief Quality Officer and VP, Quality Assurance and Testing (QAT), leading the company’s QAT services and consulting practice. Cooper is an acknowledged authority on software quality and testing, […]
Most healthcare organizations are conservative when it comes to investing in new technologies, but a new report suggests early adoption of social, mobile, analytic, cloud and machine-to-machine technologies are hallmarks of higher growth rates and market leadership. The findings come from a new study, The Digital Dividend: First Mover Advantage, conducted for Verizon by the Harvard […]
Autumn has arrived, and so have a slew of new Epic, Meditech and Cerner job opportunities through Healthcare IT Leaders, as Director of Recruiting Dimple Kochikar discusses in our latest video below. The range of consulting and permanent roles include: Epic ASAP Instructional Designer, Epic Beaker Builders, and HL7 Interface Developers with Cerner and Ensemble experience, as […]
Most would agree that doctors and nurses, i.e., those on the front lines of delivering patient care, have meaningful jobs. But what about those behind the scenes, such as the healthcare IT workforce that installs the electronic medical records systems (EMRs), maintains billing and coding software and manages the overall IT infrastructure of hospitals and health […]
Wearing coveralls, a red flannel shirt, work boots and a John Deere hat, Epic Systems' CEO and founder Judy Faulkner made it clear during a keynote speech Tuesday during the annual Epic Users' Group Meeting (UGM) that the company was sticking to what it knows - developing its Epic Systems software and improving interoperability with other EHR vendors. […]
Long before FitBit, Google Glass and Bluetooth headsets, wearables entered the world in a non-social media world. No one wrote an online review about the abacus ring, the first known wearable, but chances are that everyone did laugh when the first person tried to put an Apple II computer into a cut-out backpack. So at least […]
For the second year in a row, Healthcare IT Leaders has been named one of Atlanta’s Best Places to Work by the Atlanta Business Chronicle. The honor, announced today, is based on independent employee surveys collected from hundreds of metro area businesses. “Atlanta is home to some of the most progressive companies in the U.S. […]
Healthcare IT Leaders Consultant Advisor Erik Mesquita knows plenty of languages: English, Portuguese, Spanish, health IT speak and sports talk (specifically, anything about the New England Patriots). The Sao Paulo, Brazil, native received his bachelor’s degree from Bentley University in Waltham, Mass., and he’s lived in the Boston area since 1991, hence his Patriots devotion. But […]
Jason, mythic hero prior to the Greek Dark Ages, was tasked to find the Golden Fleece before he could claim his throne. For this quest, Jason recruited other Greek heroes, Hercules, Orpheus, Castor and Pollux, to name a few of the Argonauts. Today, a new Jason summons new heroes to join in the quest for […]
A shortage of qualified IT professionals has hospitals and health systems turning to staffing agencies for help, according to a new industry survey. Over half of respondents (56 percent) in the 2014 HIMSS Workplace study said they utilize recruitment/executive search firms to fill healthcare IT jobs. That’s up from 43 percent in the 2013 survey. […]
Nearly half of IT employees at a hospital would like to work for their current employer until retirement, according to a 2013 Towers-Watson survey. But the reality of today's HIT job market is one of greater volatility, with most HIT workers open to new opportunities under certain circumstances. In our own survey of HIT full-time […]
When The New York Times was in its earliest years, the publication charged by the letter to print anything submitted, coining the term “$10 word.” It’s rumored the verbose Charles Dickens was paid by the word, though that’s more likely because he committed to his novels’ length in advance. Today, brevity may mean more money for […]