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joanne — Mon, 14 May 2012 14:28:35 +0000

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HIT Plus Training Program

HRMS Editorial Staff — Tue, 01 May 2012 09:28:00 +0000

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 HIT students.

HRMS is working with a number of leading educators on a national basis to enhance workforce training, education and job placement. The proposed scope of work can be summarized as follows:

The HIT Plus Training Program

Enhance the existing national ONC HIT curriculum and methods of delivery to increase student completion rates; prepare students for employment in occupations supporting the Electronic Health Records industry; develop Health IT job readiness and job search training to increase employment outcomes; enhance employer relationships to provide customized, incumbent job training programs and internships; incorporate entrepreneurial training to provide an opportunity for completers to start their own HIT consulting firm; integrate existing DOL career guidance resources, models and networks to leverage previous government investment; establish programs that better match certification outcomes.

Here are the colleges that have joined to pursue this endeavor:

PITT Community College
HINDS Community College
Tidewater Community College
Houston Community College
Indian River State College
Santa Fe College
Central Piedmont Community College
Atlanta Technical College
George Tech University
Broward College
Florence-Darlington Technical College

NACEE, AHIMA and HIMSS have also expressed an interest in the partnership.

I’ll keep you posted as we continue to work toward solving the Health IT labor market challenges.

Richard Katz, CEO, HRMS

katzr@hrms.net

13 Things You Never Knew You Could Do On LinkedIn

HRMS Editorial Staff — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 23:37:09 +0000

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 to get business intelligence, to research problems, to establish an online presence where other people in the network can find them. It’s as if we’re a screwdriver in a world where people don’t quite understand screws.”

Read full article.

Meaningful use: ready and willing, but not sure how able

HRMS Editorial Staff — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 23:05:43 +0000

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.

Katz Selected for HIMSS Career Services Task Force

joanne — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 19:09:39 +0000

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 resource for Health IT employment, education and networking. Through it you can link to academia, mentor opportunities, professional connections, associations, and the most powerful job search engine in the industry.

Hundreds Attend Webinar on “Experience” Barrier to EHR Employment

joanne — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 00:54:36 +0000

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” experience. Find out how to communicate your transferable and soft skills to overcome the “work experience barrier” to employment.
•Know the EHR Business and Labor Market
•Establish Realistic Job Search Expectations
•Leverage and Communicate Your Transferable and Soft Skills
•Learn How To Write a Resume and Prepare for your Job Interview Using the “Competency Exam Blue Prints”
•Help the Employer Understand How Your Transferable Skills Match their Job Qualifications

Self-Employment: Self Help for Job Hunters

Netassets Editorial Staff — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 16:29:06 +0000

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 You Ready to be Your Own Boss? Job seekers can evaluate self-employment to see if it’s right for them and how to get started.

Self-Employment offers some unique and promising options and may be a perfect fit for many job seekers. But, it’s not right for everyone. In this booklet, job seekers can assess their skills and interest level to determine if this is a viable option.

As the job landscape is evolving, factors such as the recession, social media, dislocated workers, and a growing talent pool choosing self-employment as a new career path is proving the perfect fit for many job-seekers.

The Life Skills Education booklets address the need for portable job-search assistance that’s easy to follow and understand. The format is attractive and practical, with helpful tips and guidelines.

One Stop Career Centers and WIBs use Life Skills Education booklets for their WIA, Dislocated Workers, TANF customers, often personalizing them with a logo and message to help promote their services. The booklets are popular for teaching job readiness skills such as planning a job search, writing a résumé, preparing for an interview, and succeeding in the workplace.

About Life Skills EducationLife Skills Education specializes in designing cost-effective customer communication tools for workforce boards and their One-stop Career Centers. Customized, time-saving and on point, our customer resource gets the right message, to the right person, at the right time. To request a free sample please visit www.LSE-Online.com or call us at 800-783-6743 x203.

“Your presentation at the NAWB meeting was well received.”- Chitra Mohla, Director of Educational Programs, HHS “Your customized job training program gave us a chance to hire people from a source we didn’t have.” Sande Scoredos, Executive Director, Sony Pictures Imageworks “It was definitely worth collaborating with HRMS for the entertainment industry customized job training program.” Don Nakamoto, Executive Director, Verdugo WIB “The HRMS Health IT webinar provided information that will empower local boards, community colleges, and other participants to develop their own strategies.” Scott Anglemyer, Executive Director, Workforce Partnership WIB of Kansas “The HealthTECH Workforce Forum was a great blend of networking, meaningful conversations with Health IT stakeholders and informative keynote and panel presentations.” Grace L. Miller, Director, Healthcare and Behavioral Sciences Education, UCSD Extension “Thank YOU HRMS for an effective workforce development Health IT service.” Chuck Flacks, Director, San Diego Workforce Partnership “It was a pleasure working with HRMS.. A success!” Gretchen LeFever, Ph.D., Director, Health Information Consortium, Tidewater Community College “The workforce development marketing campaign generated a six-fold increase in the number of job seeker and employer visits to the Web site on a daily basis.” Linda Wong, Project Coordinator, LA County Regional Workforce Preparation and Economic Development “This is the third year we have co-sponsored the Experienced Alumni Recruitment & Career Conference with HRMS and it was the best yet!” Susan Dearing Associate Director, EMBA & Alumni Career Services, UCLA Anderson School of Management “HRMS’s services afforded us an opportunity to provide a high quality and unique conference that we could not have provided within our own financial resources.” Susan Schroeder, Board Member, Occidental College Business Associates

HRMS Editorial Staff — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 00:22:33 +0000

ONC Grantee and Stakeholder Summit Webcast Now Available

joanne — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 21:37:14 +0000

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 Chief Technology Officer, Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President
Farzad Mostashari, MD, ScM, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology
David Blumenthal, MD, Samuel O. Thier Professor of Medicine and Professor of Health Care Policy at Massachusetts General Hospital/Partners HealthCare System and Harvard Medical School
Leon Rodriguez, Director, HHS Office for Civil Rights
Rick Gilfillan, MD, Acting Director, Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI), Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Jay Walker, Curator, TEDMED Conference

Community Colleges Struggle to Train Workers With Limited Funds

joanne — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 21:27:39 +0000

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 Reach the Unemployed,” is the third in a series based on results from the latest annual survey, conducted over the summer, of the 51 members of the National Council of State Directors of Community Colleges (Georgia has two).

Two years ago, 11 members of the council reported that unemployed workers in their states could attend community colleges tuition-free for retraining. By 2010, only four indicated that was the case. Unemployment, meanwhile, has remained stubbornly high, while stimulus funds have dwindled and state tax revenues have yet to bounce back. This year members from 21 states reported that funds for work-force training had been exhausted.

Nearly three-fourths of survey respondents agreed that in the face of such challenges, community colleges are being pushed to offer “quick” job training without academic credit. That limits colleges’ ability to invest in more expensive long-term programs, the report says, in fields like allied health, engineering, and information technology—the very fields that need more workers and tend to offer better pay. Forty-two members indicated that their states need more funds to expand programs in those areas.

The report ends with a warning. “Even as community colleges have long been known for persisting despite budget cuts and enrollment increases,” the authors say, “we are left wondering whether the sector has neared its limits.”

Source: Chronicle of Higher Education