Growth in the U.S. economy, falling unemployment and workforce shortages are key drivers fueling opportunities for contractors and the staffing firms that place them. The outlook is so favorable, in fact, that the U.S. temporary staffing industry is forecast to reach a record size of $121.0 billion in 2016, according to a new report from […]
We’ve seen our share of IT salary and career surveys, and some can be pretty skewed—usually by a low response rate or a pool of respondents not reflective of the IT workforce. That’s why we love the annual Developer Survey from Stack Overflow, an online community of coders that claims over 30 million monthly visitors. […]
Although women make up the majority of the healthcare workforce, they are woefully underrepresented in positions of power in the sector. That’s the conclusion of a new report on the State of Women in Healthcare from Rock Health, which provides early-stage investment to healthcare entrepreneurs. The report, drawn from industry data and a survey of […]
The 26th annual HIMSS Leadership Survey, unveiled at the 2015 HIMSS Annual Conference and Exhibition in Chicago, reveals that 68% of the survey's 330 respondents believe health IT is successfully improving the health experience Triple Aim: boosting the patient experience, reducing the costs of healthcare and advancing population health outcomes. The Triple Aim, developed by the Institute for […]
From networked medical devices to electronic medical records to wireless connectivity inside hospital waiting rooms, the healthcare industry has definitively gone digital. But with these digital advances comes substantial risk if healthcare organizations don’t secure data where it’s stored. A recent report from the Health Information Trust Alliance says many healthcare organizations lack the tools they need to […]
The Department of Defense (DoD) is just months away from awarding an $11 billion contract to upgrade and modernize its EHR system and healthcare IT infrastructure, an initiative known as Defense Healthcare Management System Modernization (DHMSM). The project will replace the legacy inpatient and outpatient EHR of the Military Health System, currently utilized by the […]
"The only thing constant in life is change," said Heraclitus, circa 500 B.C., and the year 2015 - and the healthcare industry - are no exception. With the second quarter of 2015 underway, more healthcare transition is on the horizon for the remainder of 2015. The ICD-10 deadline is Oct. 1, and by the end of […]
With more than 50 million impressions, 2,200 Tweets per hour by the middle of day three and 79,574 total Tweets by the last day (a new social media record for the conference), attendees at 2015 HIMSS Annual Conference and Exhibition were all a-twitter on Twitter about what the conference had to offer, from keynote speaker George W. Bush […]
By this time next week, more than 38,000 healthcare IT professionals, clinicians, executives and vendors from around the world will have descended on Chicago for the 2015 HIMSS Annual Conference & Exhibition, to discover the newest technologies, trends, and solutions in health IT. Held April 12-16 at the McCormick Center, HIMSS 2015 will focus on health IT […]
Healthcare IT Leaders, a national IT consulting and recruitment firm for leading healthcare employers, today announced a strategic affiliation with Rudish Health Solutions, LLC and its President & CEO, Russ Rudish. As a result of this affiliation, Russ will become a Principal in Healthcare IT Leaders. Mr. Rudish brings more than 30 years of experience […]
Let me start with my personal firsthand experience of health information interoperability. While playing football for his college last fall, my son sustained a pelvic fracture. He was initially seen and evaluated at the local community hospital, an excellent institution. He was transferred to an outstanding quaternary institution about 35 miles away. At the community […]
Patients’ suspicions of data breaches cause some of them to hold back information on their health from their doctors, said a new survey on HIPAA breaches from Software Advice. Almost a quarter of patients (21%) are withholding personal health information from their doctors. While the majority of the sample (79%) said this “rarely or never” […]