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Healthcare insurer Aetna is providing Banner Health Network full technology support for population health management and patient services for more than 200,000 patients.

Pittsburgh-based Stoltenberg Consulting has found a way to put more health IT experts in the field with a new junior consultant program.

Healthcare professionals have increased their use of social media to look for jobs compared to last year, according to a new survey by recruitment firm AMN Healthcare.

Citing the high and growing demand for well prepared healthcare IT professionals, universities are offering new programs to help educate and train the workers to fill the jobs. Among them are schools in Rochester, N.Y. and in Fort Wayne, Ind.

An Electronic Health Record doesn’t accomplish much if providers are reluctant to use it. That’s why there are many new companies helping to spur EHR adoption by providing easy-to-use alternatives to keyboard data entry.

For the last 14 years, I have been working in our hospitals. I have always been in the IS Department, but at least I worked in a revenue center. I didn’t work in one of those places that are considered “corporate overhead.” Well, now I’m about six months into a new role that is distinctly corporate overhead.

Georgia Health Sciences University in Augusta, Ga. has hired Charles Enicks as chief information officer, a seasoned healthcare information technology executive with more than 35 years of senior leadership experience.

Lack of staffing resources was cited as the most significant barrier to implementing IT, according to the 2012 HIMSS Leadership Survey, which was released last month at HIMSS12.

Joyce Sensmeier, HIMSS vice president for informatics, started her career ay Palos Community Hospital in Shaker Heights, Ill. It was not long before she was charged with computer training for the hospital.

What is a chief nursing informatics officer (CNIO), some people ask, and how important is one? In this era of healthcare payment realignment and evidence-based medicine, key stakeholders say the CNIO position is critical.