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Why Being a Quick Learner in Healthcare IT Doesn’t Matter

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A Healthcare IT recruiter's frustrating perspective on candidates who are not a good fit for a particular HIT position who feel that being a "quick learner" will help them overcome this roadblock If I had a dollar for every time I've heard [perfect_quotes id="8122"] in my recruitment career I could retire right now.  It seems to be a theme when someone is told that they do not have the right qualifications for the role they have applied for. Now I'm not completely lacking compassion.  It is
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Focus on Standards Not Governance

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Written by John Tempecsco, Chief Marketing Officer at ICA Informatcs  There are many reasons why HIEs have not historically thrived.  During the CHINs of several decades ago, there were four major barriers to success.  First, the prevalence and acceptability of the Internet had not emerged, and the infrastructure to connect healthcare organizations within the community cost as much or more than the solution itself.  Second, there were very few clinical applications being adopted within the
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4 Ways to Improve Clinical Document Capture

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 Written by David McKanna, product marketing manager at Nuance “Business Week predicted the paperless office in 1975, when it was thought that computer records would completely replace paper.  In the next two decades after that pronouncement, paper use doubled.” This quote is taken from Persistent Paper: The Myth of “Going Paperless” from AMIA which provides a relevant list of reasons why paper is still widely used in healthcare.  Even fully electronic (Stage 7) hospitals still receive
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