Dive Brief:
- A shortage of IT staff is affecting healthcare more than other industries due to federal incentives, new diagnostic coding requirements and the shift to value-based reimbursements.
- A 2014 Health Information Management and Systems Society (HIMSS) survey found that a third of healthcare managers had to postpone an IT project due to inadequate staffing and a recent Advisory Board survey showed that 75% of healthcare execs responding to the HIMSS survey had outsourced some IT in the areas of clinical application support, project management and system design and implementation.
- Many healthcare facilities are developing IT staff in-house to address the shortage, but there are few formal in-house training programs.
Dive Insight:
Government mandated deadlines are forcing healthcare systems to meet objectives by specific dates. Although many are training staff in-house on the job, Frank Myeroff, president of health IT staffing firm Direct Consulting Associates said clinicians who move into IT jobs often lack required competency.
More organizations are creating CIO positions for physicians who have experience with IT. This is important when persuading physicians to support IT programs that change workflow and practice patterns. Myeroff said in order to be successful, the IT staff has to be receptive to what physicians and nurses want. “You need the clinician mind to tell them what they’re building,” he told CIO.com.
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