Chapter 13IT Staffing Building Blocks

DOI: 10.4324/9781003377023-15

One of the key building blocks of any IT function is staffing. As we have seen in recent years, the demand for talented IT staff across all business sectors has been very strong and healthcare has been competing with big tech, finance, and cybersecurity companies for IT talent. Since people are so critical to the long-term success of the IT function, we need to develop plans for shoring up the gaps and challenges we see in HIT today. While there is no one-size-fits-all solution, we’ll look at some foundational aspects of successful IT staffing in this chapter. When we perform the staffing assessment later, we’ll use these building blocks to assess where your staffing is currently ...

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