IT Job Market Remains Hot, with Healthcare Showing Long-Term Potential

If you are an IT professional seeking a new long-term or contract position, you can expect to enjoy a robust job market for the foreseeable future. The federal government projects that IT jobs will grow at a rate of 13% over the next three years, creating an additional 500,000 positions. Meanwhile, almost two-thirds of tech industry leaders now report a shortage of talented IT professionals.

All this indicates there will be a surplus of jobs in IT, at least for the next several years. What’s created this situation?

Businesses and organizations across the U.S. are under pressure to build and upgrade their IT infrastructure, to improve cybersecurity in the face of soaring threats, and to continue to move data storage and processing to the cloud. And in response to Covid, employers have increasingly shifted work away from the office and toward more flexible and remote options. The ability to perform a job from just about anywhere also means that each IT professional will have a greater number of attractive job opportunities to consider—in many cases, creating bidding wars for top talent.

The hottest industries for IT careers include:

• Healthcare
• Manufacturing
• Finance and insurance
• Retail
• Transportation
• Defense
• Education

Extremely Healthy Career Growth Potential for Healthcare IT

When it comes to healthcare IT, Queen Consulting believes that this field will offer outstanding career potential for talented IT workers for years to come.

For many reasons, the U.S. healthcare industry (which accounts for just under half of global spending on healthcare IT) is projected to grow, creating a surging demand for healthcare IT professionals. This is in direct response to several pressures:

• An aging population that will require more services
• Changes in federal and state regulations
• A need to become more cost-efficient
• A need to improve the delivery of services

Integrating IT throughout the healthcare universe is one of the most important ways that these goals will be achieved. Across the industry, IT professionals are working to:

• Lower the costs of services
• Improve the delivery of care
• Improve care outcomes
• Reduce medical errors
• Quickly share more information
• Manage more data, including digital records
• Meet new regulations
• Incorporate more digital devices

Data analysis, in particular, will play an essential role in healthcare IT, as many industry players are looking to use predictive analytics to reduce errors, lower costs and improve care delivery.

• Sharing and analysis of data
• Improved communication among healthcare professionals
• Creation, management, and access to digital records
• Improved decision-making through data
• Cloud-based operations and storage of data

Queen Consulting Specializes in Healthcare IT

Job seekers will find that Queen Consulting is a world-class resource for matching candidates with challenging and rewarding jobs and contract positions in healthcare IT. Thanks to our deep experience in healthcare and our up-to-date knowledge of trends and regulations, Queen has become the staffing provider of choice for many top healthcare organizations.

Among the critical project areas we place our candidates in are:

• EHR implementations
• ERP and other business applications
• Patient engagement and care coordination
• Digital and cloud transformation
• Advanced healthcare data analytics
• Cybersecurity
• Virtual healthcare
• FHIR-based application development
• Legacy systems support
• Marketing automation/CRM
• Claims systems

Our candidates fill many key roles on these healthcare IT project teams:

• Program manager/lead
• Application analyst
• Analytics/report developer
• Implementation Consultant
• Cloud engineer
• Software engineer
• Database/DW developer and architect
• Cybersecurity expert
• Integration developer
• Trainer

Queen Tells an EPIC Tale

Queen has deep experience in staffing for Epic projects—in every part of the project cycle, from consulting to implementing solutions, to optimizing existing systems to supporting legacy systems.

Epic-specialist roles that we staff for include:

• Team leader/team management
• Programmer
• Project management
• Application coordinator and analyst
• Analytics and report developers
• Interface and integration developer
• Infrastructure Specialist
• Instructional designer
• Security administrator
• Trainer

Look to Healthcare IT for a Stable, Long-Term Career

The many important trends affecting healthcare in America all point to the healthcare IT field continuing to be essential to the industry.

• Our aging population means that the demand for healthcare will continue to grow. The challenge will be how to provide it efficiently and effectively, and IT will undoubtedly be central to that solution.

• The need for improved sharing of data, records, and other information will continue to grow— and robust, reliable, and easy-to-use IT solutions will be key

• Healthcare equipment and devices themselves will be increasingly digital and will only grow more sophisticated.

• Healthcare reform—controlling the way care is provided, paid for, and regulated—will be ongoing for the foreseeable future, requiring system and equipment updates, new uses of data, improved security, and more to meet the latest regulations

Taken together, these four industry trends mean that the demand for talented healthcare IT professionals will experience solid growth, year after year. Queen Consulting is here to work with you to find just the right contract assignment or permanent position that will move your career to the next level. Contact us today to explore how we can help you advance your healthcare IT career.