Here are three of the latest job outlooks from some of the biggest players in health IT.
1. Munich, Germany-based Siemens AG announced plans to cut approximately 7,400 jobs worldwide to help reduce costs. The job cuts would affect approximately 2 percent of the company’s global workforce.
2. Watertown, Mass.-based athenahealth plans to add approximately 1,000 employees to its workforce in 2015. The announcement comes following back-to-back acquisition and purchasing announcements: first of RazorInsights, a cloud-based EHR and financial solutiosn provider for rural, critical and community hospitals, and second of the web-based clinical applications and EHR platform developed by Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.
3. Last November, Kansas City, Mo.-based Cerner broke ground on a new $4.45 billion campus and announced plans to double the company’s workforce to more than 32,000 over the next ten years.
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