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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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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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ONC Chief Farzad Mostashari States Nobody Has Transformed Care Delivery Without IT

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Last week, the Health Forum and American Hospital Association Leadership Summit was held in San Francisco, CA.  The overall theme of the leadership summit was getting from the first curve to the second curve creating the value proposition on how hospitals implement health information technology. During the summit, Matthew Weinstock, Senior Editor of Hospitals and Health Networks sat down with ONC Chief Farzad Mostashari, M.D. to discuss some of the trends he sees in health IT
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