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.