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Healthcare IT Professionals – Don’t Be Afraid to Negotiate!
The results of a recent Dice.com survey indicate that the majority of tech professionals happily accept the first compensation offer without negotiating either starting salaries or hourly rates. Just to be clear, allow me to restate – more than half of tech professionals don’t ask for more money, when there’s clearly more money to be had. How much money? In the same survey, respondents indicated that candidate negotiations typically resulted in a 5% bump – not a drop in the bucket when considering the fact that many upper-level healthcare IT professionals are earning well over $100,000 (that’s $5,000, which certainly can add up year after year).
What’s the reason behind the lack of negotiation assertiveness? If it’s due to the fact that candidates believe employees simply won’t negotiate, they are misinformed. So what rationale could there be for healthcare IT job seekers leaving money on the table?
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CMS EHR Incentive and PQRS Programs
EHR and PQRS Incentive Eligibility One of the goals of CMS and its eHealth initiative is to align programs to remove overlap of reporting. eHealth, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has issued guidance for Eligible Professionals (EPs) on participating in both the Medicare EHR Incentive Program and the Physician’s Quality Reporting System (PQRS) in [...]
Latest Health IT Adoption Research and Findings
Surveys and Research Show Health IT Adoption Growing You can find a lot of organizations doing research and taking surveys on health information technology. From the doctors and hospitals to the patients everyone has something to say when it comes to their health and the population’s health. So how does health IT adoption help in [...]
Latest Provider Updates from CMS
CMS Monday Morning Check-up The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is the Federal agency under the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) which administers Medicare, Medicaid, and the State Children’s Health Insurance Program. The CMS EHR Incentive programs are currently open programs for eligible professionals and hospitals to receive incentive payment for [...]
Five Friday Favorites – 5/17/13
Reports, Apps, Privacy Officers, and Confirmations Join us on selected Fridays for our five picks of the week. We will highlight things we liked and thought you should know about. This week we bring you HealthIT.gov quarterly reports, WebMD apps, HIPAA training, and National health observance month. Global Evaluation Reports These summaries support the global [...]
Chicago REC Announces New Health IT Services
CHITREC LAUNCH Program The Health Information Technology Extension Program was authorized by the HITECH Act and awarded 62 grants for Health Information Technology Regional Extension Centers (RECs) and a national Health IT Research Center (HITRC). The Centers offer technical assistance, guidance, and information to support and accelerate health care providers’ efforts to become meaningful users [...]
Upcoming 4Medapproved Events
May Learning Lunch Schedule Learning Lunches are industry sponsored virtual events focusing on adoption of health information technology (HIT). The hour long events present current topics by subject matter experts and hosted and moderated by 4Medapproved with time for Q&A from participants. For more information on upcoming events and viewing previously recorded events, visit our [...]
ONC Health IT Dashboard
ONC Health IT Dashboard Updated with 100,000+ New Data Points The ONC Health IT Dashboard is an open government project from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT. The ONC maintains the Dashboard as a platform to distribute their program performance measures tracking health information technology adoption, including electronic health records (EHR) and [...]
HIE News and Review
Recent News on the HIE Front The Federal Health IT initiative and plan is a health system that uses information to empower individuals and to improve the health of the population. The mission is to improve health and health care for all Americans through the use of information and technology. Health Information Exchange is the [...]
What That Last Interview Question Really Means
Think Differently About the Final Interview Question The questions asked in a healthcare IT job interview can certainly run the gamut, depending on numerous variables including the type of interview, the seniority of the position, and even the sex of the interviewer, but typically the interview will conclude with the same final interview question: What [...]
