2017 Best Staffing Firms to Work For awards, announced by Staffing Industry Analysts at its 26th annual Executive Forum in San Diego. The honor is based on independent, internal employee surveys measuring 10 key workplace engagement categories including teamwork, trust in senior leaders, manager effectiveness, compensation and benefits. Healthcare IT Leaders ranked in the top […]
Winter weather wreaked havoc on travel this past week with two major blizzards causing flight delays across the Northeast. Such delays can be a source of frustration and anxiety, but they shouldn’t be a surprise to well-traveled consultants, many of whom fly weekly. Over the course of a year, almost a third of all flights are […]
It’s a paradox of EHR training: healthcare providers—those who will arguably use the system the most—often have the least amount of time to learn the system in advance of Go-Live. Of course, everyone in a hospital is busy, but those giving care—physicians, PAs, NPs and other clinicians—are especially busy. Their schedules can be unorthodox (i.e., […]
Healthcare IT Leaders, a leading healthcare IT staffing and consulting services company, is newly ranked in the HIT Implementation Support and Staffing category of the 2017 Best in KLAS: Software & Services report. The annual Best in KLAS report ranks health care vendors and their solutions by analyzing feedback from the health care provider professionals […]
StarBridge Advisors is a new healthcare IT advisory firm launched by David Muntz and Sue Schade, along with Russ Rudish, a principal at Healthcare IT Leaders. Healthcare IT Leaders is a strategic partner to StarBridge, supporting their initiatives as needed, while expanding our own consultative offerings for our hospital and health system customers. Many in healthcare […]
Attending a healthcare IT conference can be a rewarding experience that shapes your career. The best events offer new ideas, valuable connections and, if nothing else, swag bags filled with far too many pens and stress balls to count. Listed by date, we’ve highlighted a handful of upcoming conferences you may be interested in attending alongside […]
Your organization has just spent millions on selecting, building out and testing your new EHR system. But your return on this massive investment relies in large part on the end users and their familiarity and comfort with the system. That's why there are trainers. Attending training is normally the first exposure to the new system […]
Technologies supporting digital transformation and the internet of things are one of many leading IT trends about to completely revamp healthcare delivery, predict global industry analysts at IDC, a leading IT advisory firm. IDC’s research initiative identified the top 10 global health IT predictions most likely to impact healthcare enterprises, companies, and departments in 2017, […]
The IT hiring outlook for 2017 is a bit muddled according to two recent surveys, but overall demand for healthcare IT professionals should show continued strength into the New Year. The latest Dice survey of IT hiring managers showed 69 percent plan on more hiring in the first half of 2017. While that’s good news, […]
Your SQL is superb, your C++ skills are “A+” and your Epic certifications are certifiably impeccable. But a resume packed with impressive technical skills may not be enough for long-term success, according to Mike Cooper, Healthcare IT Leaders Chief Quality Officer. “Soft skills get short shrift, but they're just as important (as technical skills), says […]
Tis the season, ya'll! Our Atlanta team shared the joy of the holidays in a big way this past week by delivering Christmas trees (with stands and ornaments) to deserving kids through the charity, Christmas Tree Santas. The founders at Healthcare IT Leaders also happen to be the founders of the Santas, a non-profit we set up six years ago to deliver […]
Healthcare IT Leaders, a national IT consulting and recruitment firm for leading healthcare employers, today announced it has been awarded the GSA IT Schedule 70 – Health IT Special Item Number (SIN) 132-56 for Healthcare IT Services (GSA HITS) Procurement officers, agency contracting officers and other buyers of health IT services will be able to […]