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Recently saw an ad for an IT support position at a hospital. The list of potential hazards in the work environment listed in the ad likely scares off many who h

Recently saw an ad for an IT support position at a hospital. The list of potential hazards in the work environment listed in the ad likely scares off many who have plenty of other employment opportunities. And most hospitals can't jack up the pay to compensate so attracting good talent is going to be a problem.

save_ferris 7y ago
What were the hazards that you saw? Just curious
- Mountain_Skies 7y ago
  It's been over a year but I seem to recall potential exposure to radiation, infectious disease, and chemicals being on the list. It was quite long. I'm guessing the legal department added it for all positions in the hospital.
  - delfinom 7y ago
    Yea that's just lawyer cya speak.
vkou 7y ago
> And most hospitals can't jack up the pay to compensate I find that hard to believe in an age of $100 saline bags, $20,000 childbirths, and 15-minute-long $500 specialist visits.
- braindeath 7y ago
  You’re downvoted likely because the high expenses of hospitalization speak more to inefficiencies in healthcare supply chain and the economics of insurance and really has nothing much to do with how much hospitals can afford on IT. Some hospital systems are rich... but they’re not that rich. That said I agree (based on 1st hand experience) that the larger healthcare multibillion dollar systems in the US can afford to pay more for better IT/engineering. There is simply little incentive to do so. And further it’s more than just hiring a few engineers with FAANG pay... these institutions are organizationally not suited to engineering. Changing this would not be easy for them...and no, we don’t need a hospital run like Facebook or Uber. Then there are the tons of smaller systems in the US.. they cannot afford high priced engineers regardless of the pre-insurance line charge for a bag of saline.
- SolaceQuantum 7y ago
  Much of that cost has to go to people who cannot pay for healthcare and the massive amounts of bureaucracy managing multiple contradictory medical billing codes by company.
- Spooky23 7y ago
  Earlier in my career I interviewed for a health IT job that was basically a director level position. The pay ended up being less than I was making as a government employee for a smaller scoped job. The government gig was probably less than an intern makes at a FAANG. In medicine, doctors are king. Everyone else is a peon.
  - pasttense01 7y ago
    Doctors don't feel like they are kings--while they make very good money there are massive amounts of red tape, filling out Epic... It's the bureaucrats who are kings.
    - JBlue42 7y ago
      My doctor friends confirm. They would rather spend their time on patient care but have to make a lot more time for the paperwork.

save_ferris 7y ago

What were the hazards that you saw? Just curious

Mountain_Skies 7y ago
It's been over a year but I seem to recall potential exposure to radiation, infectious disease, and chemicals being on the list. It was quite long. I'm guessing the legal department added it for all positions in the hospital.
- delfinom 7y ago
  Yea that's just lawyer cya speak.

vkou 7y ago

> And most hospitals can't jack up the pay to compensate I find that hard to believe in an age of $100 saline bags, $20,000 childbirths, and 15-minute-long $500 specialist visits.

braindeath 7y ago
You’re downvoted likely because the high expenses of hospitalization speak more to inefficiencies in healthcare supply chain and the economics of insurance and really has nothing much to do with how much hospitals can afford on IT. Some hospital systems are rich... but they’re not that rich. That said I agree (based on 1st hand experience) that the larger healthcare multibillion dollar systems in the US can afford to pay more for better IT/engineering. There is simply little incentive to do so. And further it’s more than just hiring a few engineers with FAANG pay... these institutions are organizationally not suited to engineering. Changing this would not be easy for them...and no, we don’t need a hospital run like Facebook or Uber. Then there are the tons of smaller systems in the US.. they cannot afford high priced engineers regardless of the pre-insurance line charge for a bag of saline.
SolaceQuantum 7y ago
Much of that cost has to go to people who cannot pay for healthcare and the massive amounts of bureaucracy managing multiple contradictory medical billing codes by company.
Spooky23 7y ago
Earlier in my career I interviewed for a health IT job that was basically a director level position. The pay ended up being less than I was making as a government employee for a smaller scoped job. The government gig was probably less than an intern makes at a FAANG. In medicine, doctors are king. Everyone else is a peon.
- pasttense01 7y ago
  Doctors don't feel like they are kings--while they make very good money there are massive amounts of red tape, filling out Epic... It's the bureaucrats who are kings.
  - JBlue42 7y ago
    My doctor friends confirm. They would rather spend their time on patient care but have to make a lot more time for the paperwork.