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09/04/2026

A health system with an RN vacancy has options. Not comfortable ones, but options. Float pool, incentive shifts, cross-training from an adjacent unit, agency.

A health system with a CT tech vacancy on nights has one option, and it is external.

That difference gets missed because allied health vacancies are counted the same way RN vacancies are counted. A vacancy rate treats every open line as the same kind of hole. It is not.

Three things make allied health different.
- There is no internal bench. You cannot float a med-surg nurse into a CT scanner. The credential is the constraint and it does not transfer.
- The unit is smaller. A department of six with one vacancy has lost a sixth of its capacity, and at that size there is no smoothing to absorb it.
- The service is scheduled rather than surged. An imaging backlog does not present as a crisis. It presents as a longer wait for an outpatient appointment, which reaches access metrics and referral patterns months after it reached the schedule.

The systems that handle this well track allied health separately from nursing, and they start sourcing on the resignation rather than on the vacancy report.

How does your organization count allied health vacancies today, separately or in the same pool?

What's Your Next IT Challenge? Let's Solve It Together!

09/02/2026

Look at a health system's IT roadmap and count the projects that need an interface built or changed.
Then count the people who can build one.

In most systems the second number is two. Sometimes three. It has been that number for years, and it does not move when the roadmap grows.

Every one of these queues behind the same desk.

The new lab instrument that needs results flowing into the EHR.
The specialty clinic acquisition that arrives with its own scheduling system.
The payer portal that needs eligibility checked in real time.
The research team that needs a de-identified feed.
The device integration project everyone assumes is a networking problem until it is not.

None of these are large projects on their own. Together they are a permanent queue, and the queue stays invisible on a roadmap that lists projects by clinical sponsor rather than by shared dependency.

Two things help. Make the interface queue visible as its own line, with its own capacity number. And separate the work that genuinely needs an integration engineer from the work a well-scoped vendor connector already handles.

Which project in your portfolio is sitting in that queue right now?

What's Your Next IT Challenge? Let's Solve It Together!

09/01/2026

Pharmacy is usually the last team invited to an EHR project and the first one called during go-live week.

The reason is structural rather than anyone's decision. Pharmacy informatics sits between clinical, IT and supply chain, and it reports cleanly into none of them, so it rarely has a seat when the project charter is written.

The build still has to happen. Order sets. Dose ranges. Allergy and interaction checking. IV compounding records. The interfaces to automated dispensing cabinets, and the smart pump library that has to agree with what the EHR believes.

That work is measured in months. It gets discovered in weeks.

What it looks like when it goes wrong is familiar to anyone who has lived it. Alerts firing on doses that were always appropriate, so clinicians learn to click through them and the alerting loses its meaning. A dispensing cabinet that disagrees with the order. A go-live weekend where pharmacy becomes the escalation path for everything.

None of that is a pharmacy failure. It is a sequencing failure, and the fix is putting a pharmacy informaticist on the project at charter rather than at cutover. One person, six months earlier.

If you have been through a go-live, tell us how early pharmacy was brought in.

08/28/2026

Most float pools were built to fill tonight. Very few were designed to answer next quarter.

A pool solves an immediate problem, which is why it usually reports into scheduling. Someone calls out, the pool covers it, the shift is safe. That part works.

What it does not do is show you where coverage is structurally short, because the pool absorbs the signal. A unit that runs one FTE light every single week looks the same on a dashboard as a unit that had one bad flu week. Both were covered.

Three questions turn a float pool back into a planning instrument.

Which units draw from the pool every week rather than occasionally. Weekly is a vacancy wearing a different name.

Which shifts get filled last. That is where your real premium is being paid, whether or not it is labeled as premium.

How many pool nurses have covered the same unit so consistently that they are that unit's staff in everything except the org chart.

The answers usually point at one or two units that need a permanent line rather than more float.

If you manage a pool, tell us which of the three you already track.

08/26/2026

A health system buys ambient documentation for its clinicians and the vendor delivers in weeks. Adoption takes a year.

The license was the fast part.

What takes the year is everything the license does not cover.

Every specialty writes a different note, so the templates behind the output get rebuilt service line by service line.

The output has to land somewhere in the EHR, which means an integration analyst decides where, in which section, and under whose signature. Someone sits with clinicians during their first week of use, because the ones who abandon it abandon it in week one and rarely come back on their own. And someone owns the review loop when a note comes out wrong, which is a clinical informatics judgment call rather than a help desk ticket.

None of that appears on the invoice. All of it is staffing.

The systems seeing real adoption are the ones that budgeted clinical informatics and integration capacity alongside the license, rather than treating rollout as a training email and a go-live date.

If you are mid-rollout, tell us which service line took the longest to bring along.

08/25/2026

A health system automates prior authorization and the clean cases start clearing themselves. That part works, and it works fast.

Then the exceptions arrive.

A payer changes a rule mid-quarter. A code falls outside the mapping. A clinical document attaches in a format the rules engine did not expect. A request comes back with a reason nobody built a path for.

Every one of those lands on a person, and the volume of them holds steady far longer than the business case assumed.

The teams that get durable value out of prior auth automation staff the exception queue on day one and treat it as permanent rather than transitional. The role that owns it is a specific blend: fluent enough in payer rules to recognize what changed this quarter, and technical enough to update the rules engine rather than file a ticket about it.

That person is hard to hire because most postings describe one half of the job. A revenue cycle posting that never mentions the rules engine, or an engineering posting that never mentions payer policy. Candidates who can do both read those postings and assume the role is the other thing.

If you are running prior auth automation, look at who is handling your exception queue today. Then ask whether that queue is shrinking or holding.

What's Your Next IT Challenge? Let's Solve It Together!

08/19/2026

Two health systems announce a merger in January. By spring the brand is unified, the leadership chart is settled, and the press release is old news.

The clinicians are still working in two charts.

Integration is the part of a merger that keeps running long after the announcement cycle ends, and it lands almost entirely on people who were already fully committed to running two live environments.

Two master patient indexes become one, and the duplicates surface at the bedside, which is the worst possible place to find them.
Order sets that are clinically identical turn out to be built differently in each system.
Two revenue cycle configurations meet one payer contract.
Credentialing files exist in two formats with two sets of expiration dates.
Interface engines that each worked perfectly now have to agree on a message standard.

Every one of those is a staffing commitment measured in quarters.

The organizations that come through it well tend to do the same thing early. They staff integration as its own program with named owners, one for the master patient index, one for order set harmonization, one for revenue cycle mapping, rather than adding the work to teams already at capacity.

If your organization is inside a post-merger integration, name the owner of your master patient index reconciliation this week. If it takes more than one name to answer, that is where to start.

What's Your Next IT Challenge? Let's Solve It Together!

08/18/2026

Ask a health system who owns the security of a connected infusion pump, and you will usually get a pause.

Biomedical engineering owns the device. IT owns the network it sits on. Security owns the policy. Clinical engineering owns the service contract. The manufacturer owns the software, and frequently will not permit anyone else to patch it.

Every one of those answers is correct, which is exactly the problem. A device with four partial owners has no owner.
This gets harder as more equipment arrives networked by default, and as older devices stay in clinical service well past the point where their operating systems are supported. The gap is usually not awareness. Most organizations know. The gap is that the role which would close it sits between four departments and belongs cleanly to none of them, so it never gets written, budgeted, or filled.

Where we see this working, one person or one small team holds explicit accountability for connected device security, with a mandate that crosses biomed and IT, and an inventory that is maintained continuously rather than assembled once for an audit.

If you are at a health system: who owns connected device security on your org chart, by name?

08/13/2026

Revenue cycle shows up as a finance number, so it tends to get staffed as a finance problem.

Denials are up. Days in AR are climbing. Someone asks for more billing staff.

Then you trace where the denials actually originate, and you often find the origin is systems work rather than billing work. Eligibility checks failing silently at registration. A payer rule that changed and never made it into the edit set. A charge capture interface dropping records on one service line. Prior authorization living in three places that do not talk to each other.

None of that is fixed by hiring another biller. It is fixed by someone who can read an 835, trace an interface, and sit in a room with both revenue cycle and IT without needing a translator.

That person is genuinely difficult to find, and part of the reason is how the role gets written. They are not a pure analyst and not a pure biller. Most job descriptions for this role pick one of those and quietly miss the other, then the search runs for five months.

If your denial rate is moving in the wrong direction, there is a question worth asking before the one about headcount: where in the system does this claim first go wrong?

08/11/2026

Most clinical analyst job descriptions are two jobs stapled together.
One is technical. Build, configure, test, validate, document.

The other is translation. Sit with a nurse manager who is frustrated and short-staffed, work out what they actually need as opposed to what they asked for, and say no to the third request without losing their trust.

Health systems hire for the first job and are then surprised when the role underperforms.

The tell shows up in the interview. Candidates who talk fluently about build work and go vague when asked how they handled a clinical stakeholder who disagreed with them are strong at half the job.

The strongest clinical analysts we place are often people who worked at the bedside first and moved to the technical side later. They do not need the clinical context explained, and clinicians can tell inside one meeting.

If a clinical systems role has been hard to fill, or hard to keep filled, it is worth checking whether the job description is describing one job or two, and whether the compensation reflects the answer.

What's Your Next IT Challenge? Let's Solve It Together!

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