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Mercy, the eighth largest Catholic healthcare system in the U.S., announced plans this week to build a virtual care center in Chesterfield, Mo., billed as "the first of its kind in the country."
Just two days after announcing its acquisition of assets from Southlake, Texas-based CySolutions, Greenway Medical Technologies is making more news: the expansion of its Georgia headquarters and the addition of some 400 jobs.
New healthcare IT jobs are part of the Jobs Initiatives for Rural America, which was announced by President Obama on Aug. 16 at the White House Rural Economic Forum. The plan includes making Department Health and Human Services (HHS) loans available to help more than 1,300 critical access hospitals recruit additional staff, and helping rural hospitals purchase software and hardware to implement health IT.
While stubbornly high unemployment continues to drag on the rest of the economy, the healthcare industry can’t seem to find enough qualified people to fill its information technology needs. Unlike other sectors where hiring remains muted, health systems are crying out for talent in IT, information management and coding, employment specialists say.
At first glance, one might think the workforce management market in healthcare is old hat. Everyone has the technology, right? No one uses Excel documents to figure out who should be working where and when, right?
Montefiore Medical Center in New York’s Bronx borough has been providing quality care for decades, thanks to a clinical analytics system that could serve as a model for other healthcare systems across the country.
Outgoing MGMA President and CEO William F. Jessee, MD, announced Thursday he is joining Integrated Healthcare Strategies in October. In other leadership news, the White House named Steven VanRoekel as the new chief information officer for the federal government Thursday, replacing Vivek Kundra.
John Halamka, MD, chief information officer at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, announced last week that he will be "passing the baton" as CIO of Harvard Medical School to a "new IT leader."
athenahealth announced Thursday that it has signed an agreement to acquire Proxsys, a Birmingham, Ala.-based provider of cloud-based care coordination services between physicians and hospitals.
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