Field Notes
What we're seeing
in healthcare IT.
Hiring trends, talent market shifts, compensation, and lessons from the field. A perspective shaped by healthcare IT work and the people doing it.
Compensation
Epic Analyst Pay: Protect Internal Equity Without Falling Behind the Market
Your next hire can reveal a pay gap on the team you already have. Compare the work, review the market, and include your existing high performers in the decision.
Read the field noteYour next hire affects the people already on your team.
Talent market
The $15 Problem: Why Epic Consultants Are Being Commoditized
The gap between the best Epic consultant and the worst is shrinking to $15 an hour. Here's what's driving it and why it matters for health systems that take IT hiring seriously.
Read the field noteExperience matters. The search should reflect it.
Healthcare IT Talent Report
What makes people move?
What makes them stay?
Explore Epic salary benchmarks and healthcare IT workforce insights to make more confident hiring and retention decisions.
Request the Talent ReportAbout these findings
Findings come from Bloomforce's workforce survey. Findings describe respondents, rather than representative estimates of all healthcare IT workers. Report access is requested separately using your work email.
of surveyed leaders identified uncompetitive compensation as a hiring challenge.
28 of 58 leaders · multiple answers allowedof non-manager respondents reported no clear promotion path.
115 of 225 non-manager health-system respondentsBloomforce workforce survey · respondent findings
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