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 [...]
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” [...]
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 [...]
Shopping giant Costco is going nationwide with its electronic health record venture. The big box retailer jumped on the EHR vendor bandwagon this past June on a test-case basis, teaming up with Etransmedia–a Premium Plus Allscripts Partner–to offer EHR systems to healthcare providers who are Costco members. The combination EHR/practice management product, called MyWay, claims to provide [...]
WASHINGTON, DC – The HHS Office for the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology announced today that more than 100,000 primary care providers are adopting certified Electronic Health Records (EHRs) to help improve their quality of care and ultimately lower health care costs. This commitment by more than one-third of all primary care providers nationwide [...]
Essential Elements of Healthcare Information Exchange As healthcare organizations continue to transition from gathering data through EHR systems toward building knowledge based on that data, the ability to exchange patient information, consistently, privately and securely becomes ever more paramount to improving quality of care. In this first-of-its-kind class in Southern California, some of the region’s [...]
Richard Katz, CEO of HRMS, will present at the HIMSS12 Annual Conference on February 21, 2012 in Las Vegas. The presentation will feature proven-effective Health IT job search strategies and techniques. Title: HIT Job Search Strategies For Emerging Professionals The poster presentation will feature a HIT job search decision tree and schematic graphically demonstrating how [...]
The U.S. House of Representatives, with a Republican majority, recently passed a draft 2012-13 budget that basically cuts federal Workforce Investment Act funding by about 60%. A conference committee of the House and Senate appropriations must negotiate some agreement on how much will actually be cut, if there is a reduction. The Senate does not [...]
