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Do Health IT Hires Need A Clinical Background?

Thursday, 16 February 2012   (0 Comments)
Posted by: Sam Bruinewoud
(from Information Week)

If you've kept up with the news in recent months, you're aware of the shortage of qualified IT professionals to fill positions in hospitals and medical practices. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts that jobs in health informatics will jump by 18% by 2016 and expects there will be shortage of about 50,000 health IT workers over the next five years.

Few people challenge those statistics, but what's upsetting job candidates is that many health IT managers only want people with a clinical background.

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