Category Archives: Health IT Workforce

These Are Boom Times for Nursing Informatics

Do you agree? The evidence seems to be everywhere.

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CPHIMS – Connecting Technical Expertise & Personal Health

by Tracey Holland, CPHIMS Recently I was asked why I chose to pursue the CPHIMS certification.  My immediate response seemed rather obvious: to further my career.  That response doesn’t sound very satisfying, not even when I say it to myself.  … Continue reading

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The Health IT Body of Knowledge: Another HIMSS Resource for your Health IT Toolkit

To meet the growing needs of those interested in learning more about the health IT industry, the HIMSS Health IT Body of Knowledge offers an online and continually updated resource. This valuable learning tool maintains over 20 different topic categories filled with peer-reviewed resources for anyone interested in learning … Continue reading

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Managing Career Transitions

Often, we find ourselves relocating to other positions and changing career paths, whether intentionally or unintentionally, and it can be very stressful and filled with much uncertainty.  Many, when asked having experienced a career re-direction, find this time as the most stressful … Continue reading

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Developing a Professional Development Plan

 You’ve no doubt heard this advice before: design your own destiny before someone else does it for you. This is so true from both a personal as well as a professional perspective. 

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HIMSS Annual Conference – A Must-Attend Event for Career Growth

Health IT careers are built upon learning, expanding our reach and scope of insight and trying to find the novelties that make us unique in our own professional pursuits.  Being introduced to an array of ideas, technologies, thoughts and concepts is integral … Continue reading

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My Life Changed on 9/11

All of us were affected by the terrorist acts of 9/11.  My life changed in two ways.  As an active duty Air Force officer at the time, you can imagine how my military career was affected.  My health status also … Continue reading

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Internships In Support of Career Advancement

HIMSS Career Services offers a variety of supporting tools in support of our members’ growth in the health IT profession.  One of these is our new offering called Health IT Internships on our Career Services website. 

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Putting the Pieces Together

For #healthIT professionals, it critical that we keep our knowledge and our skill sets up-to-date so that we too develop personally and professionally. And I’ll be the first to say, it takes work to do so. To shape our careers … Continue reading

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TIGER Has Legs

Focused on better preparing the clinical workforce to use technology and informatics to improve the delivery of patient care, Technology Informatics Guiding Education Reform – or TIGER – became the TIGER Initiative Foundation, effective July 1, 2011. With incorporation, this … Continue reading

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