With the switch to EMR (Electronic Medical records), the demand for experienced health care IT specialists and specifically Clinical Informatics specialists is growing at a tremendous rate. Any business owner that contracts IT professionals knows that finding talented programmers and retaining them can be a challenge in such a high demand area. Clinical informatics specialist positions are relatively new so competition among medical employers for experienced professionals in this area can be fierce.
Bernie Monegain over at HealthcareITnews.com has written an interesting post highlighting the competition in this growing area by healthcare employers for talented IT specialists. http://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/clinical-it-professionals-hard-find A recent study by the Hay Group has found that healthcare companies are growing their EMR programs at a rapid rate in response to the American Recovery Acts. The study points out that many healthcare organizations have formed clinical informatics positions without the needed structure due in part to “lack of benchmark data and understanding of best practices”. This is not surprising given the rapid growth in this area and the need to” learn and you go” in an area as new as clinical informatics.
As with any specialty in health care that is relatively new –most often driven by new technology- health care IT is now an area of tremendous job growth. Experienced Health IT specialist can “call the shots” (for now anyway) as we have seen in other areas of health care where demand in high and supply is low. This again shows that the health care industry is an area of tremendous opportunity not only for direct care providers but for those behind the scenes that improve efficiency and help to provide better patient outcomes.
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