Friday, October 29, 2010.
Don't miss this great video about the BigBreak event in NYC on November 5th by Tiffany Crenshaw, President and CEO of Intellect Resources. Great information for those attending and those wanting to know more!
Tuesday
IRBeat : ASHIM Presents Intellect Resources BigBreak with Mount Sinai Medical Center
James Johnson of ASHIM, Tiffany Crenshaw of Intellect Resources, and from Mount Sinai Medical Center in NYC - Kristin Myers Vice President of IT and Epic Clinical Transformation Group, Egan Visker / Training Manager, Dr.Bruce Darrow, MD, PhD and Amy Albano, RN, MBA, Senior Director, Nursing Operations.
Listen to the new IRBeat where we discuss the upcoming BigBreak audition!
Industry professionals are all here to share their expertise and insight on the ground breaking audition, and why you should be a part of it!
Monday
Top 10 Reasons to Apply for the Big Break Audition
Monday, October 25, 2010.
By Tiffany Crenshaw, President and CEO of Intellect Resources
- Worth playing hooky from work
- Practice your interview skills
- Network with interesting, entertaining, professional people (We might ask Paula Abdul to be a judge.)
- It is NOT Project Runway
- Opportunity to get your foot in the healthcare IT door
- See who can make the most words out of our industry’s Alphabet soup – EMRCPOECLINCDOC
- Could learn EPIC, only the hottest EMR on the market today
- Opportunity to participate in a GROUND BREAKING new way to recruit
- Get your presentation skills critiqued. (Simon Cowell will NOT be there!)
- Work with one of nation’s most prestigious healthcare organizations
- Learn what EMR stands for and other healthcare IT “thingys”
Friday
November 5th Auditions Could Provide a New Career Path for 90 New Yorkers Seeking their "Big Break"
(CNBC - BUSINESS WIRE)
Intellect Resources, a search firm specializing in full-time and contract placements in the healthcare IT industry, is hosting a "casting call" style audition event on November 5th to find 90 New Yorkers who are seeking a new opportunity to be fully trained and gain valuable job experience as healthcare technology trainers. The individuals selected during the audition will be placed on 3 -- 6 month assignments at The Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York.
The trainers will be teaching Mount Sinai's staff -- from physicians to administrative clerks -- how to use a new electronic health records system that the hospital is implementing from Epic Systems Corporation, the industry leader in electronic health records. The new system is being implemented to comply with a provision of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which encourages healthcare providers to convert to electronic records in order to reduce cost and increase the efficiency and accuracy of health records management.
Wednesday
CACI Awarded $1 Billion CDC Health IT Contract
By Nicole Lewis , InformationWeek
Ten-year deal will provide infrastructure enhancements to advance Centers for Disease Control and Prevention scientific research and public health protection.
CACI International has been awarded a prime contract to support the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) information technology infrastructure work under the overall CDC Information Management Services (CIMS) contract. The 10-year, multiple-award, indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract for IT infrastructure work has a ceiling value of $1 billion.
Tuesday
Blumenthal: Federal program will ease IT worker shortage
From Fiercehealth IT
Worried that you won't have enough IT staff to complete an EMR implementation toward achieving "meaningful use," or perhaps making the conversion to ICD-10 coding? National health IT coordinator Dr. David Blumenthal wants you to relax.
"Help is not only on the way--it's here," Blumenthal says in his latest public letter, touting the $84 million federal Health IT Workforce Development Program.
He notes that the University of Texas at Austin, a beneficiary of some of the government funding, recently graduated its first class of health information management and exchange specialists, and that the school will add three more health IT certificate programs next year. "Right now, most of the graduates are looking to enter--or have already entered--the health IT workforce. Graduates are landing jobs with consulting firms, software vendors, technical assistance companies, and healthcare providers," Blumenthal writes.
From outside Washington, we see that the IT field in general is booming. According to Menlo Park, Calif.-based IT placement firm Robert Half Technology, starting salaries for IT professionals should increase by 3.4 percent in 2011, and healthcare has a large role in that projected growth. "We've seen a strong demand for IT professionals, from developers to help desk, to assist with the conversion to electronic medical records," John Reed, executive director of Robert Half Technology, says in a press release.
Friday
IR Beat : Naga Kamineni Interview on Project Management
PMP training and project management degrees are discussed by Naga Kamineni, a senior software engineer, with Donna Nelson of Intellect Resources. Listen to the interview by using the player below.
Thursday
Research on IT Salaries Suggests Demand, Compensation Will Increase for Health IT Experts
The guide predicts there will be a particularly strong demand for IT professionals in the healthcare industry next year. Compensation of IT experts will likely see an average salary increase of approximately 3.4 percent in 2011. Other findings include the following:
Intellect Resources and Mount Sinai Medical Center Create an EPIC Event
By Tiffany Crenshaw, President and CEO of Intellect Resources
In collaboration with the Mount Sinai Medical Center, Intellect Resources is pleased to present “Big Break.” This is an audition-style selection process to on-board 90 New York based trainers to our team to assist Mount Sinai's EPIC Inpatient implementation. Like Mount Sinai's investment in technology, this audition is ground breaking. Nothing like this has ever been done in our industry before. What a great opportunity for those who want their big break in healthcare IT and also for healthcare IT professionals interested in adding EPIC to their credentials. For more information, click here.
Wednesday
Before, During and After Musts When You Have a Non-Compete Agreement.
By Tiffany Crenshaw, President and CEO of Intellect Resources
Many companies include a non-compete agreement in their new hire paperwork. Basically, this is an agreement outlining terms in which one can engage in future employment as to not compete with their company for a specific period of time. Restrictions may include working for specific competitors, clients or vendors or working within specific geographic territory or industries.
Too often candidates are so excited about a potential job or a potential employer they fail to review non-compete agreements in detail. It’s not until they are ready to make a job change that the reality of this agreement sets in and they realize that little piece of paper significantly limits their employment opportunities.
Tuesday
Europe Provides Lessons on EHR Privacy
This is an article from HealthcareInfoSecurity.com
By Howard Anderson, Managing Editor, Read the original
Public acceptance of electronic health records is much greater in Europe than the United States because European patients are more confident that their information will remain private, says David Baumer, head of the business management department at North Carolina State University.
In an interview (transcript below), Baumer calls for the United States to follow Europe's lead in:
- Making it much more clear that everyone has a fundamental right to privacy;
- Holding medical records to a higher level of protection than financial records;
- Setting tougher penalties for privacy violations and devoting more resources to enforcement, going far beyond the measures called for in the HITECH Act.
Friday
Health Care IT Industry Career Strategies
Friday, October 8, 2010.
Career Strategies How to Enter the Healthcare IT Industry – UIC Webinar Series. This version has been edited.
Have you asked the question, “How can I transition to, or further develop my career in health IT?”
View the presentation here.
Career Strategies How to Enter the Healthcare IT Industry – UIC Webinar Series. This version has been edited.
Have you asked the question, “How can I transition to, or further develop my career in health IT?”
View the presentation here.
■Indeed.com lists over 6000 HIT jobs as of mid year 2010
■HIT job postings increase 30% in the last year
■ANIA-CARING.org lists over 800 clinical IT and informatics jobs
■Monster.com lists over 1000, HIMSS.org over 300
■Recruiters are much busier than last year
U.S. Economy Lost 95,000 Jobs in September; Jobless Rate Steady at 9.6%
From the New York Times.
The United States economy shed 95,000 nonfarm jobs in September, the Labor Department reported Friday, with gains in private-sector employment outweighed by cutbacks in government payrolls. The steep drop was far worse than economists had been predicting.
Thursday
First EHR Products Certified For Meaningful Use
Thirty six electronic health record products are first to be certified as capable of meeting Meaningful Use Stage 1 criteria.
By Marianne Kolbasuk McGee
InformationWeek
A wave of three dozen e-health records products are the first to be certified capable of meeting Meaningful Use Stage 1 criteria. The certifications should help doctor practices and hospitals be more confident about the EHR products they’re using or planning to purchase.
Certification of EHR products is required for healthcare providers to qualify for the $20 billion-plus incentive funding that’s been allotted under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act’s HITECH Act programs for the “meaningful use” of health IT.
The largest group of products certified so far -- 33 -- were announced by the Certification Commission for Health IT; another three product certifications were granted by Drummond Group.
Ask A Recruiter
By Jennifer Williams Salter
Question : How important are thank you notes, and should I send them in writing or via email?
Answer : A thank you note is not likely to be the deciding factor in whether or not an employer will hire you. However, it certainly can’t hurt and can definitely demonstrate a good attitude and genuine appreciativeness. In ideal world, a hand-written note definitely offers that extra personal touch. Since many hiring managers today rarely look at their paper correspondence, email maybe your only option. Talk to your recruiter or HR representative to get some guidance on the preferred method.
If you do decide to send a thank you via email, let the email sit for a while before sending it on. Then, go back and look it over 2 or 3 times for grammatical errors, misspellings, misstatements, etc. It is so easy to send a hasty email that can produce disasterous results.
Monday
Top 10 Most Influential Informatics Professors
Monday, October 4, 2010.
By Linda at HealthTechUtopia.
Read the original article. This version has been edited.
Health informatics is making headway in the news, and innovators such as the ones listed below in our (HealthTechUtopia) top 10 most influential informatics professors, are highlighted in recent headlines. Their work, creations and publications in both the fields of health and in informatics influence how leaders view informatics and their use in today’s market. With their inroads into this field, you might consider application to the college that hires a specific professor — especially if you want to learn from the best.
Dr. Dominik Aronsky, MD is Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics & Emergency Medicine at Vanderbilt University, is interested in interdisciplinary research with a focus on developing, implementing, integrating, and evaluating decision support systems for real time, clinical applications. He is on the board of the AMIA (American Medical Informatics Association) as well as serving as board member for the AMIA’s new GHIP (Global Health Informatics Partnership). His recent work in emergency department information systems was presented by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) as part of a informatics lecture series.
By Linda at HealthTechUtopia.
Read the original article. This version has been edited.
Health informatics is making headway in the news, and innovators such as the ones listed below in our (HealthTechUtopia) top 10 most influential informatics professors, are highlighted in recent headlines. Their work, creations and publications in both the fields of health and in informatics influence how leaders view informatics and their use in today’s market. With their inroads into this field, you might consider application to the college that hires a specific professor — especially if you want to learn from the best.
Dr. Dominik Aronsky, MD is Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics & Emergency Medicine at Vanderbilt University, is interested in interdisciplinary research with a focus on developing, implementing, integrating, and evaluating decision support systems for real time, clinical applications. He is on the board of the AMIA (American Medical Informatics Association) as well as serving as board member for the AMIA’s new GHIP (Global Health Informatics Partnership). His recent work in emergency department information systems was presented by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) as part of a informatics lecture series.
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