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While I was presenting at the AACC annual conference in Orlando last week, I had an opportunity to contact a number of community colleges and universities to consider proposing on the TAACCCT DOL grant. Our strategy was to help find solutions to the Health IT workforce challenges: skill gaps between employers and recently graduated ONC [...]
A lot of LinkedIn’s ~150 million users don’t know how to unlock its true potential. The company’s co-founder, Reid Hoffman, said as much in a recent profile by WIRED: “They think it’s a place they keep their CV online and maybe have some connections with people they know professionally. They don’t think of it as a place [...]
A recent survey conducted by audit, tax and advisory firm, KPMG, reveals that a majority of administrators at hospitals and health systems identify their organizations as being well along in completing electronic health record (EHR) system adoption. However, many of them are expressing doubt about their ability to meet the new EHR standards. Read full article.
Richard Katz of HRMS, Inc. has been chosen as a member of the HIMSS Career Services Task Force for the next year. He was selected out of many applicants because of the unique perspective he brings to the career services efforts HIMSS is designing and facilitating for its diverse membership. HIMSS Career Services is a vital [...]
The HIMSS Emerging Professionals webinar, “Overcoming the “Work Experience” Barrier to EHR Employment” presented by Richard Katz, MBA, and James Brady, PhD, drew hundreds of participants. The recorded webinar, available for viewing here, discussed the following topics: Many graduates of the ONC HIT college training program have not been hired because of a lack of “hands-on” [...]
Self Help for Job Hunters–Have you ever thought, “Someday, I would like to be my own boss”? Maybe it’s time to consider hiring… yourself. Job seekers will find this booklet from Life Skills Education helpful in exploring the many options available in Self-Employment. Life Skills Education publishes a how-to booklet entitled Self-Employment: Are [...]
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) held its 2011 ONC Grantee and Stakeholder Summit on November 17, 2011. An archived webcast of this event is now available at: http://www.healthit.gov/oncmeeting2011/. We encourage you to watch the webcast and learn about health IT’s achievements and challenges. Key speakers included: Aneesh Chopra, United States [...]
Business leaders depend on community colleges to offer work-force training, but high unemployment and state budget cuts have made it harder for the sector to do that work. That’s the message of a report released by the Education Policy Center at the University of Alabama. The report, “Jobs, Jobs, Jobs: Challenges Community Colleges Face to [...]
There were plenty of jobs in health IT in 2011, but employers were being ultra selective The new health IT jobs that were promised as part of the government’s big push toward digital medical records are there, and there are plenty of job seekers to fill them, but are they the right people for the [...]
