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  Today in health it your next role in health it. My name is Bill Russell. I'm a former CIO for a 16 hospital system and creator of this week in Health IT at channel dedicated to keeping health IT staff current. I. And engaged. I just want to ask you once again, have you signed up for clip notes.

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And it's from Becker's Hospital Review. It's actually a little old. It's from June 21st, and it's four hospital execs who recently left their roles four digital health companies. Okay. And so they have, over the past month, there's four individuals who've left for different roles. I'm gonna give you those four and then we're gonna have a conversation about what you should be looking for in your next role.

Eric Huong h. UANG MD PhD left his role as Chief Data Officer for quality at Duke Health. To join Virtual Diabetes Clinic duo, a verily owned company, Dr. Huong will head up innovation initiatives at DUO as its new chief science and innovation officer. Second one, digital Diabetes Startup, Virta Health, tapped Sybil Borland, B-J-O-R-K-L-U-N-D-A former Vice President of Federal Strategy at Johns Hopkins University to serve as its new Senior Vice President of Policy and Government Affairs.

Tom Quigley, CIO of Pensacola, Florida based Baptist Healthcare. We'll take on the role of Chief Client Officer. At Health IT Company, CloudWave and SEMA four. A genomics company spun out of Mount Sinai health System named Andrew Kakis, K-A-R-S-K-I-S PhD as its new Chief Data Officer. Dr. Kakis joined SEMA four from New York City based Mount Sinai, where he most recently served as executive vice president and chief data officer.

I think there's a couple things that are of interest here. So that's all really from the article. And I'm gonna use this as an opportunity to talk about career moves. Uh, I think it's interesting that a lot of those people are in data roles and they're being sought after for other companies. It's just something to consider.

There's a lot of activity in that data space. I wanna preface this conversation with, these may be great moves for each of these people. I really have no idea. I'm speaking more of the concept in general of making a career move. The first thing I will tell everyone, . Is that the landscape is changing and opportunities abound.

They may not be with a provider and they may not be in your hometown. They may be with a startup, a payer, or even part of an industry you've never considered. But digital transformation is leading to more opportunities in addition. It is close to 25% of the US economy. Healthcare is, and money is pouring in.

So I would really challenge people to look outside the box. There are a lot of opportunities. Sometimes people get pigeonholed. They think, oh, I can only work for a provider. Digital transformation is changing the landscape. The next thing I would say is see the whole board. When I have conversations with people who are considering a career move, the question I I usually start with is, what would your perfect job look like?

So seriously, close your eyes and, and describe it to me. Would you be your own boss? Would you work for someone else, but have more autonomy? Where would you live? Would you like to be in another industry? What keeps you from living where you wanna live and working in the industry that you wanna work in?

There are always valid reasons. There are appropriate times to make a move, and there are excuses which are a little different. I challenge people to discern between the two, get outside help if you need to discern between them. But understand what you are looking for. What does the perfect job look like?

And identify those characteristics. That way you can use those characteristics to evaluate the next job and the opportunities that are in front of you. The next thing I will say to people is that finding the next thing is a team sport. I. But identifying the right next move is also a team sport. We all know that we need to network to find the next role, but what we overlook is that we have blind spots, and it is when we are making these moves that we need to have people who know us, who know the industry and understand the dynamics to help us to see what might become clouded as we entertain certain offers.

Who is your team that helps you to evaluate opportunities? . The next thing I would say is when people have identified the next role and they call me, at some point I'll ask them, what are the expectations for that role? What will they measure your success on? What things will you get a promotion on or a bonus for, and what things will eventually get you fired?

Expectations are the mother of all disappointments. If you don't identify the expectations of those who are hiring and evaluating your performance, you are making a major mistake. These are just a bunch of the questions that I ask. There's many more. As I talk to people, I find I'm talking to people more and more.

That's one of the things we've heard about the pandemic is that a great number of people are looking for new opportunities. These are just some of the questions I ask and I, I just wanna encourage you have people in your life who are gonna ask those questions. Identify what you want your next role to look like.

Identify what the perfect role would look like, identify those characteristics, and be looking at those characteristics when you're evaluating the next role. But also have somebody there who can ask you the questions, who really understands who you are and what you're susceptible to. You might be looking at something saying, that's a great opportunity.

It's a career move. It's a, a move up, but you're not considering the expectations of that role. Maybe it's the first time you're getting a sales number and somebody needs to ask you, how are you gonna feel if you have to drive sales? How are you gonna feel if you have frontline p and l responsibility?

How are you gonna feel? If you're going to manage a much smaller team than you managed before, or manage a much larger team than you managed before, all these things can be overcome. And all of these things are great challenges and we all need to take on challenges in order to take the next career step.

But we also don't want to misstep. I. We wanna make sure that we're heading in the right direction and balancing the priorities that are important to us as we make these moves. Alright, that's all for today. If you know of someone that might benefit from our channel, please forward them a note. They can subscribe on our website this week, health.com, or wherever you listen to podcasts.

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