Dive Brief:
- With multiple pressures on healthcare organizations to get IT projects completed, and a limited IT talent pool, health IT salaries continue to raise, according to a study by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS).
- The study, which surveyed 1,160 HIMSS members, found that the average health IT salary was $113,269. Consulting firms, at $141,818 and software companies, at $116,159, offered some of the biggest paychecks and raises.
- More than two thirds of HIMSS respondents said they'd received a raise, with average increases at 4.16 percent.
Dive Insight:
Health IT leaders are really up against it when it comes to recruitment these days. Dell founder Michael Dell recently noted that when his company wants to hire, say, 100 software or storage or network engineers, "we have to go find them one at a time and seek them out and convince them and cajole them to work for us." And that doesn't even count the additional pressure when IT managers want a specialist health IT worker. Healthcare organizations, brace yourself. Next year is going to be a rough ride when it comes to finding talent.