Category Archives: Health IT Workforce

Developing a Professional Development Plan

Posted on October 14, 2011 by

 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

Posted on September 16, 2011 by

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

Posted on September 10, 2011 by

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

Posted on August 31, 2011 by

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

Posted on August 10, 2011 by

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

Posted on July 6, 2011 by

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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Whetting your Appetite for Expanding the HIMSS Informatics Knowledge Base

Posted on June 20, 2011 by

Over the past year,  I have had the pleasure of exploring a collaboration agreement between the American Dietetic Association (ADA) and HIMSS to provide opportunities for knowledge and resource sharing within the domain of nutrition informatics. Both organizations envision this collaboration will … Continue reading →

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Live from the HIMSS Virtual Conference: Meaningful Use Phase 1 and Beyond

Posted on June 8, 2011 by

This morning I was an invited to moderate, “You Expect Me to Do What? Priming Your Staff for Meaningful Use Success.” at the HIMSS Virtual Conference & Expo. Leah Tew, RN, MBA, Thomas Eye Group Manager, Healthcare Informatics, was scheduled … Continue reading →

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It’s About the Information – Not the Technology

Posted on June 3, 2011 by

On Thursday, (June 2), I joined other speakers at the IBM Healthcare Leadership Exchange, Transforming Healthcare, held at the Chicago IBM Transformation Center.  My keynote presentation focused on “Healthcare in the US,” which seemed to balance the morning with the … Continue reading →

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Where Are the Health IT Jobs?

Posted on May 11, 2011 by

A recent national search on the HIMSS JobMine© indicates that at least 10 states have multiple positions open in the double digits with Illinois leading the way at 24 followed by Florida at 16.  The total number of positions nationwide, again, according to … Continue reading →

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