A majority of healthcare providers plan to hire at least one full-time IT staffer in the coming year, according to a survey from HIMSS Analytics.
A majority of these new hires will work in clinical application support, according to the survey. The top 10 areas for planned IT hires over the next year include:
- Clinical application support (58 percent)
- IT security (35 percent)
- Help desk (34 percent)
- IT management (32 percent)
- Project management (27 percent)
- Financial application support (23 percent)
- Clinical informatics (21 percent)
- System design and implementation (20 percent)
- Systems integration (17 percent)
- Database administration (17 percent)
Survey results are based on responses from 200 IT executives.
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