Maslow’s Hierarchy of EHR User Needs
After graduating from nursing school way too many years ago and devoting the majority of my career to healthcare IT and informatics, I can still recall a few key items from my freshman introduction to nursing classes. Beyond being able to reliably recall at least 60...
The Impact of European Medical Device Regulation (MDR) on Engineering Employment
In many ways, the COVID-19 pandemic brought the healthcare industry to a halt. An all-hands-on-deck strategy was needed to treat those critically affected by the virus and protect others from infection. This also meant the necessary delay of countless elective...
Clinical Research Sites: Invest in Your Recruiters and They Will Invest in You!
HR and recruiting functions can vary greatly across sites depending on factors like organizational structure and the size of the research program. As a professional working for a staffing and workforce solutions provider, I’ve seen it all. In some cases, recruiters...
Video: The Growing Need for Nurses
Long before the COVID-19 pandemic, the nursing field was facing a staggering rate of turnover. The global health crisis has only exasperated these conditions. Consider this: The American Association of Critical Care Nurses recently polled nurses and found that 66...
Life Sciences: Understanding the Universe of Clinical Research Outsourcing Strategies
There’s no room for stagnation in life sciences. In an industry that demands innovation, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device companies are seeking quicker, cost-effective strategies to accelerate product development. “The life sciences industry is...
The Links Between EHR Dissatisfaction, Clinician Burnout and Turnover
Burnout has received much press recently, and rightly so. Clinician burnout was rising before the COVID-19 pandemic, and the pandemic significantly accelerated burnout. In an article published in Critical Care Medicine assessing burnout rates early in the pandemic,...
Tom Brady Isn’t the Only One Coming Out of Retirement: Recruitment Insights that Explain the Tech Talent Crunch
For most businesses and IT hiring managers, the struggle to find and hire tech talent has been a hard one for a long time. Has it gotten harder? Impossible? That’s the question our team at Medix Technology get most everyday from talent acquisition leaders who...
Infographic: 7 Tech Job Posting Mistakes You’re Probably Making (and How to Fix Them!)
Is that tech job posting you just made helping or hurting you to attract new hires? Let's face it, in all of IT history, it’s never been harder to attract and hire technology talent. Record unemployment compounded by soaring demand have made tech workers a precious...
Supporting Principal Investigators is Key to Maintaining Clinical Research Sites
A major issue facing clinical research today is the high attrition rates for principal investigators (PIs) working on clinical trials, and the resulting need to continuously recruit and train new investigators. This increases the costs of performing clinical trials...
Video: Is COVID-19 Becoming an Endemic?
After years of living with COVID-19 as a pandemic, health officials are cautiously optimistic that the situation could shift into a stage known as an endemic. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) signaled as much when they released updated guidelines...
Impact Podcast: Hiring Trends in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Companies are talking a lot about diversity, but how do you know if DEI is a part of their DNA? By now, you probably know that DEI stands for diversity, equity and inclusion. The way companies approach these efforts is extremely important for job candidates, and...
Checking the Pulse on Staffing, Supply Chains and the Medical Device Industry
The medical device industry finds itself at yet another crossroads. After years of disruption driven by the COVID-19 pandemic, there appears to be optimism on the horizon as the world emerges from the shadow of the Omicron variant. While firms have been able to...