June 13, 2016 | CIO Corner, Disruptive Technologies, Healthcare, Technology
With IT staff shortages a reality for CIOs in most industries, healthcare – driven by federally mandated incentives for such IT-intensive projects as Electronic Health Records – is experiencing even more of an IT labor crunch. Is poaching experienced IT talent from other industries the answer?
An IT labor crunch is happening across most industries. While “disrupting” technologies are sweeping into the marketplace and being targeted by organizations wishing to capitalize on these increased capabilities unfortunately the number of staff or labor in the market is becoming increasingly incapable of supporting these newly created positions hence causing organizations to delay and postpone some of these innovative projects specifically revolving around IT.
The healthcare industry according to this article is being impacted severely due to a host of issues from government mandates to implement EHR to the huge knowledge curve for non-healthcare IT professionals. Here is a serious concern which is, where are the needed supply of IT professionals, whom have no healthcare experience, coming from to fill this gap as most healthcare organizations don’t want IT professionals with no healthcare background? Here-in lies the conundrum.
This article discusses the various considerations but moving forward the focus has to be on the organization and/or the business process. Whether you are providing clinical data analytics for infectious diseases within a provider network or a federal surveillance epidemiologist assessing the best predictive analytics tool for coverage needs, the focus has to be on the business process.
It is not easy but the more you bring on strategic advisors whom can dive into the details of your business to help you put the pieces of this puzzle together the more likely you will come out with a winning plan moving forward.
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