Workforce Management

 
FDCCI: A ship with potential but not empowered captains
May 15, 2013 |
Tom Sullivan
Has OMB lost its way toward the ambitious, if not sprawling, datacenter consolidation and Cloud-First initiatives?
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Will it cost more to close fed datacenters than agencies save?
May 13, 2013 |
Tom Sullivan
Federal government agencies are making progress with FDCCI, according to a report published Monday, and the benefits of shuttering datacenters are understood, but challenges and questions remain.
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HIMSS network study shows IT challenges, priorities
May 9, 2013 |
Erin McCann
Among the top issues facing healthcare IT leaders are mobile devices, security, data storage, and information exchange.
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EHR dissatisfaction: A tech or people problem?
May 6, 2013 |
Kimberly Martini
Frequently, healthcare entities focus on how the EHR will work, rather than what frontline clinicians will do with it, which creates growing user frustration, extended adoption times and increased costs. But with proper planning, an effective paper to pixel transition is possible.
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Q&A: An ONC HIT Workforce Development Program success story
May 6, 2013 |
Tom Sullivan
Having spent more than 15 years in pure IT work, Robert Reedy looked into ONC's program to train IT pros for healthcare and found a new career, replete with continuing job offers.
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Bipartisan bill aims to tackle physician shortage
March 25, 2013 |
Frank Irving
Saying the U.S. is "on the cusp of a crisis," a statement announcing the Training Tomorrow's Doctors Today Act explained that the proposed legislation would work toward eliminating the workforce shortage by 2025.
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Alzheimer's connection project wins HHS innovation award
March 19, 2013 |
Anthony Brino
A project linking patients, caregivers and Alzheimer's research centers won the Department's third annual innovation award, as Secretary Sibelius and a Google HR guru talked about the need for collaboration in such a large organization.
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PwC finds HIT worker shortage bigger than expected
March 12, 2013 |
Bernie Monegain
The report also found healthcare executives concerned with the ability to absorb change and integrate health IT into daily activities.
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OHN's 12 health IT best practices, part 9: Recruitment and retention
February 18, 2013 |
Kevin Geoffroy
Erin Davis
In today's world, there are many challenges to finding, hiring and keeping qualified HIT pros. Here's a look at those as well as 6 best practices.
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OHN's 12 health IT best practices, part 9: Recruitment and retention
February 18, 2013 |
Kevin Geoffroy
Erin Davis
In today's world, there are many challenges to finding, hiring and keeping qualified HIT pros. Here's a look at those as well as 6 best practices.
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HIEs top hiring need: IT pros
February 13, 2013 |
Diana Manos
A new survey published by AHIMA and HIMSS found that, among participating organizations, 45 percent are looking to hire health IT professionals. Here's a breakdown of the most sought-after positions.
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Healthcare hiring, pay to accelerate in 2013
January 29, 2013 |
Bernie Monegain
Heightened competition for healthcare talent will trigger higher compensation, according to a new report, and employers are also stepping up retention efforts.
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Cloud Services Leverage Provider IT Resources and Ensure Continued Service Levels
November 7, 2012 | White Papers
Healthcare IT professionals are under pressure to deliver complex applications with high performance and security, while tight budgets demand cost reduction initiatives. For this reason, healthcare IT professionals will seek service-based offerings that reduce the infrastructure burden on their organizations while reducing operating costs and the associated capital investment. Labor represents the single largest cost for healthcare providers, and workforce management applications are key to monitoring and managing this cost. Workforce management applications are mature, installed solutions at most healthcare providers; many have an opportunity to outsource their application hosting, management, maintenance, and support to qualified service providers. To maintain workforce management applications and services while leveraging IT staff for new clinical implementations, provider IT departments will seek cloud-based cloud service options that preserve service levels for employees and managers using workforce management applications.
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Best Practices to Deploy ECM Technologies: Ensure Decisions are Made Based on all the Information, not a Portion of it
October 11, 2011 | On Demand Webinars
In this Web seminar, learn firsthand from five healthcare organizations how, after integrating Perceptive Software enterprise content management (ECM) products, they are realizing cost and time-saving benefits enterprise-wide. The customer panel will share lessons learned and best practices for deploying ECM technology with their business and health information systems.
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Delivering the Future of Healthcare: Maintain Compliance, Improve Efficiency and Continuity of Care...Virtually Anywhere
September 29, 2011 | On Demand Webinars
The role of IT is becoming increasingly pivotal in how healthcare organizations deliver products and services. Healthcare providers must not only achieve HIPAA compliance and meaningful use while still providing world class care and services, they must also wrestle with how to reinvent themselves in order to deliver on accountable care in the near future. Learn how you can deliver the future of healthcare...virtually anywhere.
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Proactive Security and Privacy Monitoring for Modern Healthcare Networks
September 8, 2011 | On Demand Webinars
The HITECH Act of 2009 accelerated the adoption and deployment of EHR/EMR systems. However, along with the many benefits, this trend also introduces greater risk of privacy and security breaches. The emerging rise of cloud-based healthcare services similarly brings many benefits but reduces visibility and control over sensitive data. Addressing these challenges requires continuous monitoring across data, systems, and applications in modern healthcare networks.
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Futureproofing Healthcare with Converged Medical Infrastructure
August 23, 2011 | On Demand Webinars
The face of healthcare is transforming at a blistering pace. Simply staying abreast of the changes is a daunting task leaving little time for the innovation necessary to stay competitive in the marketplace. The future of the medical infrastructure lies in the power of IT convergence. The converged medical infrastructure integrates servers, storage, networking, management software, services, power and cooling into one flexible, modular, standards-based platform to give you the power to handle any workload, anywhere, anytime. Learn how to futureproof your medical information with the converged medical infrastructure.
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An informatics nurse's recommitment to deliver quality and innovation in patient care
May 8, 2013 |
Maria Arellano MS, RN
For National Nurses Week, Mario Arellano shares three of the critical aspects of her real world knowledge of what it means to work as a nurse.
What health reform can teach us about government procurement
March 25, 2013 |
Tom Romeo
Why health reform is personal to Tom Romeo and what the broader government can learn from it.
How to boost medical coding productivity
March 20, 2013 |
Carl Natale
The medical coder productivity loss during Canada's transition to ICD-10-CA is almost legendary.
ICD-101: There's no reason ICD-10 education cannot start now
February 26, 2013 |
Carl Natale
Developing a plan to train and educate staff for the ICD-10 transition is as important as upgrading systems and equipment.
How to create an ICD-10 training plan
February 19, 2013 |
Carl Natale
ICD-10 training programs need to raise awareness of the new coding requirements and formal training for key personnel.
5 cold facts about finding a job in government health IT
January 31, 2013 |
David Bakke
It's not an easy to realm to break into, for various reasons, but there are tactics to employ now if you want to work in federal health IT.
ICD-101: Why your coders need to brush up on communication skills
January 29, 2013 |
Carl Natale
Specifically, medical coders will need guidance on crafting physician queries for increased specificity.
HIMSS 2013 Annual Conference Gearing Up!
December 11, 2012 |
Helen Figge
Education is the cornerstone of advancing a career and recognized to be very important for individuals as an ongoing process for skill development, advancement and expertise.
Career Growth with a Government Twist
May 7, 2012 |
Helen Figge
HIMSS Professional Development is helping to orchestrate the 8th Annual Government Health IT Conference & Exhibition at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, DC from June 11-12, 2012.
ICD-10 Transition: How to engage, not scare, physicians
February 13, 2012 |
Carl Natale
Hospitals need to get their physicians more involved with ICD-10 transitions.
Editor's Desk: T.W.I.G. Notes
February 10, 2012 |
Tom Sullivan
This Week in Government Health IT … When will we see the MU stage 2 rules, Political Malpractice, HIT jobs in demand but ONC workforce program grads not a match for HIEs, and more.
ICD-10 Preparation: 6 elements that need to be in your impact assessments
January 18, 2012 |
Carl Natale
If you haven't started your ICD-10 transition, you need an impact assessment.