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Resource Overview

The process of finding and hiring the best-qualified candidate for a Quality and/or Health IT job in your health center is time-intensive and challenging. Having job vacancies or recruiting the wrong person can cost the organization in terms of real money, time spent, morale, and productivity. Successful hiring requires refining the recruitment process, which includes analyzing the requirements of a job, attracting employees to that job, screening and selecting applicants, and hiring the new employee to the organization.

This section includes resources to help you define and refine your recruiting methods.  These are tools that have been tested by health centers in the field and are proven to work. These resources reflect the combined experience of several successful health centers around the country.

Also available are templates for Health IT Job Functions and samples of Health IT Job Descriptions.

Health IT Staff Recruitment Tools
Health IT and Cybersecurity Positions and Salaries
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Health IT and Cybersecurity Positions and Salaries

Descriptions and ranges

Below is a list of job descriptions that can be used to help describe various health information technology, as well as cybersecurity, employment options. A variety of health information and technology positions are represented. This information is intended to assist health centers in understanding the many different domains of the profession as well as possible job descriptions that could be useful when drafting duties or during recruitment. This information was compiled in early 2022.

Included are a list of links as well as attached documents from professional organizations.

 

Health IT/QI Positions Descriptions/Job boards:

 

Cybersecurity Positions

 

Example of Cybersecurity Positions and Salaries (Source: CompTIA, early 2022)

Note that salaries vary widely by geographic area and responsibilities, so these are for informational purposes only.

  1. Cybersecurity Analyst $95,000

  2. Cybersecurity Consultant $91,000

  3. Cyber Security Manager / Administrator $105,000

  4. Software Developer/Engineer $110,140

  5. Systems Engineer $90,920

  6. Network Engineer/Architect $83,510

  7. Vulnerability Analyst/Penetration Tester $103,000

  8. Cyber Security Specialist / Technician $92,000

  9. Incident Analyst / Responder $89,000

Documents to download

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Acknowledgements

This resource collection was compiled by the HITEQ staff with portions contributed by Chris Espersen, HITEQ Advisory Committee member and Independent Contractor and Past President of Midwest Clinicians Network; Shane McBride, Independent Contractor and Past Vice President of Quality and Clinical Systems at South End Community Health Center; Chris Grasso, Associate Director for Informatics & Data Services- The Fenway Institute; and Ed Phippen, Principal - Phippen Consulting, LLC.

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