The number of jobs within the health IT space is growing, according to a report from HealtheCareers Network.
Although the number of jobs posted in the third quarter declined by 4 percent from the second quarter, health IT was still up by 5 percent over the year. One percent of all healthcare job posts were health IT.
The biggest growth area in health IT is predictive analytics, the report said, citing data from San Francisco digital health incubator Rock Health, which earlier this year noted that $1.9 billion of venture capital was invested into the predictive analytics.
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The demand for physicians also slightly increased over the year by 3 percent. Interestingly, morale among physicians improved slightly, perhaps suggesting matters are getting better.
“Fifty-six percent of the 20,000 physicians who responded to a recent survey described their morale as negative. However, those who felt optimistic increased to 44 percent this year from 32 percent in 2012,” the report said. “In general, the data collected by The Physicians Foundation revealed that younger doctors were significantly more optimistic than seasoned professionals were. Additionally, female physicians were more optimistic than male physicians were, and the optimism of employed doctors was greater than that of those in private practice. The size of each of these more optimistic demographics has been on the rise and may account for the improvement.”
Nurse practitioners saw a slight decline of 2 percent in job posts on a quarterly basis. A similar decline was true for physician assistants, at 3 percent. But nursing overall increased by 4 percent over the same period, according to the report.
Also, it turns out physicians aren’t the only ones dissatisfied with EHRs — 92 percent of nurses expressed dissatisfaction with inpatient EHR systems , while 85 percent said flawed EHR systems “cause continual struggle.” Another 88 percent said their hospital administration had selected “low-performance EHRs.
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“Additionally, 79 percent of job-seeking RNs reported that they consider the reputation of a hospital’s EHR system when considering where they want to work,” the report said.
Other tidbits from the report:
