MEDITECH's Howard Messing was a featured
speaker during the Massachusetts Health Data Consortium's
recent national conference on health care I.T., titled "Health
Information Technology: Creating Jobs, Reducing Costs and
Improving Quality." The event focused on the HITECH Act,
examining how companies can use health information technology
(HIT) and health information exchange (HIE) as an engine of
job creation.
Messing participated in a CEO panel session, "Jobs, Jobs,
Jobs — Health I.T., Business Opportunities, and Job
Creation," showcasing leaders from several high-profile
I.T. companies. He discussed MEDITECH's hiring efforts and
the challenges of finding candidates with I.T. degrees.
Messing also emphasized that MEDITECH is committed to
creating jobs by hiring candidates from Massachusetts and
surrounding New England states, and has no plans to ever
outsource.
"MEDITECH is and always has been a Massachusetts company,"
Messing says. "As we increase our staffing to meet the
growing demands being placed upon our industry, we will
continue to hire within our state and support the local
economy."
National Coordinator for Health I.T. David Blumenthal was
also a keynote speaker at the conference, giving an update on
the national progress of health I.T. adoption and the grants
his office is distributing for health I.T. education and
training. He discussed the HITECH Act and its vision for
coordinated care, and also the enormous job opportunities it
has created in health I.T.
Other speakers included Governor of Massachusetts Deval
Patrick; Vice Admiral Regina M. Benjamin, MD, M.B.A., the 18th
Surgeon General of the U.S. Public Health Service; and
Secretary of the Massachusetts Executive Office of Health
& Human Services JudyAnn Bigby, MD.
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