It's that time of year again: time to nominate your hospital's IT team for Healthcare IT News' 6th Annual Best Hospital IT Departments awards.
Nominations close on Friday, June 24.
Based on data gathered from anonymous employee surveys sent to the nominees, Healthcare IT News and HIMSS Analytics will publish a special report in November naming the winning departments and exploring the characteristics that make for an exceptional health IT workplace.
CLICK HERE TO NOMINATE the IT department at your hospital or health system.
The Best Hospital IT Department contest includes four category sizes: small (25 or fewer IT employees); medium (26-75 employees); large (76-199) and super (200 or more).
Department employees are asked to fill out a secure online survey – to be sent to all nominees in early July – assessing their departments on measures of workplace satisfaction such as day-to-day experience; workplace culture; senior management and leadership; professional development opportunities; pay and benefits and more.
[Best Hospital IT Departments 2015: Meet the winners]
In 2015, 169 hospitals were nominated, and 56 qualified for the the Best Hospital IT Departments awards program. To qualify as a finalist, at least 50 percent of a hospital's IT department must take the anonymous workplace satisfaction survey. Overall, some 5,500 IT employees completed the poll in 2015.
IT departments that qualify as finalists for the Best Hospital IT Departments program receive a free benchmark report. The report shows how a hospital IT department scored in seven key categories compared with other departments in the program.
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