Friday, October 23, 2009

WAR ON TALENT TO BEGIN IN HEALTHCARE IT

My fingers are crossed. Your chances improve in rural areas. There are nearly 6,000 hospitals in the U.S. A third of them are in metropolitan areas. The 4,000 that are not have jobs that are going begging.

According to an article today in Healthcare IT News:

The government’s piece of the stimulus package aimed at boosting the adoption and use of healthcare information technology is expected to create 50,000 new jobs—maybe more.

A panel of healthcare IT experts who spoke Thursday at the 6th annual Connected Health Symposium in Boston agreed that 50,000 seems right. “The need for IT is going to explode,” said Andrew Vaz, national director of life sciences for Deloitte Consulting. He said companies like Oracle, SAP, IBM and Cerner are trying to position themselves to “win the war on talent,” both in the United States and offshore.

Read the rest here.
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