According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, healthcare and social services jobs are expected to grow 24 percent from 2008 through 2018, faster than the average for all occupations. Growth in the healthcare IT industry can be attributed to many factors: Long term care of a large aging population, the need for technology to provide greater accountability for two thirds of the population at risk for heart disease due to being overweight or obese, more emphasis on preventive care and the use of technology and data to increase the quality of patient care and overall accountability. Additionally, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) bill included a section known as HITECH where entitlement funds are available (+/-$34 billion) to Medicare and Medicaid participating providers (hospitals, physicians and other providers) as an incentive to develop and improve their health information technology (HIT) capabilities, primarily in the area of electronic health records (EHRs). The problem that many hospitals and other providers encounter in filling these jobs is the shortage of qualified, experienced health IT staff. While the federally funded training programs in 82 community colleges may help meet some of the demand, the majority of the available positions are not entry level, say consultants and CIOs. This presentation will focus on these trends and career opportunities in health IT for professionals based on job roles, vendors technology and market transition. Guest Speaker: Tommy Fowler, Healthcare Services at TEK Systems

1. Trends and Career Opportunities in
Health IT
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2. Asha’s Background
Asha Kamath is a business development
& sales management professional with
over 15 years of experience in diverse and
highly competitive markets. She
as routinely sought out new avenues of
growth, closed profitable sales and managed
relationships with Fortune 500 companies and
government agencies. She believes in the consultative
sales approach to provide tactical business solutions.
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3. Webinar Objectives
• Key Trends and Career Opportunities
 Market
 Technology
 Vendor Landscape
• Career Development Options
• Job Searching Tips
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4. Who are we …
EHR 2.0 Mission: To assist healthcare
organizations develop and implement practices to
secure IT systems and comply with
HIPAA/HITECH regulations.
 Education(Training, Webinar & Workshops)
 Consulting Services
 Toolkit(Tools, Best Practices & Checklist)
Goal: To make compliance a meaningful and painless
experience, while building capability and confidence.

5. Tommy’s Background
- Healthcare IT recruitment in
software development, business analysis,
project management, quality assurance
and healthcare human capital management
industry experience with a provider focus.
- Worked with major NC health systems to assist in
attracting and retaining IT talents
- BA from UNC with a concentration of marketing and
advertising
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6. Acronyms
1. ARRA: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
2. HHS: Health and Human Services
3. OCR: Office for Civil Rights
4. HIPAA: Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
5. HITECH: Health Information Technology for Economic and
Clinical Health Act
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7. Market Trends
 Long term care of a large aging population
 Increasing healthcare cost
 More emphasis on preventive care
 Lifestyle changes in population putting greater
number of people at risk for heart disease due to
being overweight or obese
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8. The American Recovery and
Reinvestment Act of 2009 and HITECH
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9. Translated Career Opportunities
• 50,000 additional health IT workers are needed
just to support EHR mandates
Medical Records and Health Information
Technicians
Employment (2010) 179,500
Employment (2020) 217,300
Growth percentage 21%
Projected increase 37,700
Health Technologists and Technicians
Growth percentage 26%
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10. Health Technology Trends
Informatics Collaboration
Mobile EHR
Computing HIE
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11. EMR and EHR systems
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12. Health Information Exchange (HIE)
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13. EHR and HIE: Required Skill Sets
 Project Managers
 Analyst
 Design
 Build
 Test
 System integrators
Credentialed vs. Certified Consultants:
 Number of Epic implementations current (Various
technologies)
 Number of EHR implementations
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14. Handheld Usage in Healthcare
• 25% usage with providers
• Another 21% expected to use
• 38% physicians use medical
apps
• 70% think it is a high priority
• 1/3 use hand-held for accessing EMR/EHR
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15. Career Opportunities in Mobile Technology
- Mobile development
- Project managers
- Business and clinical analysts
experienced in developing a mobile
platform
- Mobile security
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16. Collaboration - Telehealth, Cloud and
Social Media
Telehealth
• Market to hit $6.2 B by 2020
• Remote monitoring and connected devices
• More and more patients prefer
Cloud Computing
• Medical Image Archiving
• Web Hosted EHRs
• Storage Needs for Collaboration
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17. Career Opportunities in Telehealth
and Cloud Computing
• Network Engineers
• Video Technology Experts
• Telehealth Educators
• Cloud Developers (Amazon, Google and
Ruby on Rails)
• Architects
• Cloud Security Experts
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18. US Hospitals on Social Media
 1,500+ Hospitals
6000 + Hospitals
 695 YouTube Channels
 1264 Facebook pages
 967 Twitter Accounts
1500+ Hospitals
 651 LinkedIn Accounts
 1116 Four Square
 185 Blogs
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http://network.socialmedia.mayoclinic.org/hsnl-grid/

19. Career Opportunities in Social Media
Consumers
• SM Marketing
Specialist Regulators
Health
Coaches
Wellness
• Social Media Disease Mgmt.
Clinical Trial
Communications Recruitment
PHR
and Blog Writer Nurses Training Physicians
Treatment & Much more
• Digital Media
Director Clinical
Investigators
Allied health
pros.
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20. Informatics
• Pay for performance is an emerging
movement in health insurance
• Growing competitive pressures, and
comprehensive reporting on performance and
quality measures
• Adoption of EHR and HIE systems
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21. Career Opportunities in Informatics
• Project Managers
• Business Analysts and Data Analysts
• BI Developers (Hadoop, Business Objects,
Webfocus)
• QA Analysts
• Data warehouse developers
• Data warehouse testers
• Database administrators
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22. Vendor Landscape
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23. Plenty of Opportunities
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24. Career Development Options
• Community colleges
• Certifications
• Vendor
• General
• Job Sites/boards
• Networking
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25. Career Development Options
Certifications
• PMP
• CBAP
• EPIC(Various Modules)
• Cisco CCNA, CCNP and CCIE
• HITPro
• CISSP
• CISA
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26. Career Development Options
Become a Member of Associations:
• AHIMA
• HIMSS
• AHEC
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27. General Job Searching Tips in
Healthcare Industry
• Linkedin
• Profile
• Jobs
• Groups
• Consulting and Recruiting Industry
• Healthcare Networking Events
• Be Informed
• E-mail alerts
• Websites
• Twitter
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28. Online Job Trends …
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29. Career Track
Current Role Transition Future Health IT Role
• General IT • Volunteering • EHR Analyst
Clinical Education • Project Managers
Project Managers - Short-term • Compliance officers
Analyst -
Gradation/Masters
Certification
Non-profit
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30. Key Takeaways
 Massive Healthcare Industry Transition
 Several government-funded programs available for
education/training
 Growth in HIE and Informatics in the 3 to 5 years
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31. Additional Resources
 Resources Section: ehr20.com/resources
 http://www.bls.gov/ooh/healthcare/home.htm
 http://www.mynextmove.org/
 http://www.onetonline.org/
 hitregiond.pittcc.edu
 http://www.fiercehealthit.com/
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32. About TEKsystems
 TEKsystems makes it easier to get IT done, deploying the right people, the right way to achieve business
targets.
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Our Services Include:
› $2.6 billion in annual revenue
Q U I C K FA C T S
› Privately held company within Allegis Group, a $6.4 billion
enterprise
IT staffing solutions to complement
in-house skills and capabilities. › 5,500+ customers, including 82% of the Fortune 500
› Achieve 30% higher client satisfaction vs. the competition
› 98% client retention
› 93% of clients say we help them achieve quantifiable outcomes
› Over 100 locations throughout North America, Europe and Asia
Strategic guidance on how to
optimize IT human capital. › 4,000 full time employees
› 70,000 IT consultants deployed annually
› Staffing specialists speak with 100,000 IT professionals weekly
› Relationship network includes 81% of the IT workforce
Proven IT services designed based › Ranked by Staffing Industry Analyst s (SIA) as #1 since 2000
on thousands of insights into what
works at the ground level in IT.
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33. Upcoming Events
 Next Live Webinar
 HIPAA/HITECH Essentials: Business Associate
Requirements(10/3/2012)
 Meaningful Use Risk Analysis (10/31/2012)
Sign-up at ehr20.com/webinars
 Health IT Fair – Oct’ 5th at UNC Chapel Hill
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34. Questions?
E-mail: info@ehr20.com
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35. Thank you!!
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