Posted on 03/10/2016 10:42:30 AM PST by MeganC
The reason being is that there are two types of people who work in healthcare IT: those people who genuinely care and the quintessential "C students." Healthcare is usually nonprofit, and as such, they don't attract the best talent for IT specializations. You get the long-term unemployed with rusty skillsets, kids out of college or tech/vocational schools, or old IT workers (45+) who are looking for a place to ride out their glory years until retirement.
The long-term unemployed come in, brush up on their skills and move on to more lucrative career choices. The kids out of college often do the same. The older IT workers do what they can to get by and that's pretty much it. Unfortunately this includes IT security workers.
While the healthcare industry uses the same standards of encryption and protection, MOST healthcare IT shops are staffed by people who know turnkey solutions and can press buttons. The true IT workers, your white hatters, your Certified Ethical Hackers, your security buffs who know how to create honeypots and fool outside hackers, they're in the for profit world making the big money.
There's no money in healthcare IT. They're basically the public school teachers of the IT world. They cater to rich clinicians who want their IT products to do their job for them so they can go play golf.
Really? My phone knows exactly where I’ve been and keeps a very long history.
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