{"id":967,"date":"2013-04-12T14:24:01","date_gmt":"2013-04-12T19:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sanfordrose.wpengine.com\/kempfgroup\/?p=967"},"modified":"2013-04-12T14:24:01","modified_gmt":"2013-04-12T19:24:01","slug":"healthcare-careers-without-patients-featuring-tom-thomson-managing-partner-of-sanford-rose-associates-franklin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sanfordrose.com\/kempfgroup\/healthcare-careers-without-patients-featuring-tom-thomson-managing-partner-of-sanford-rose-associates-franklin\/","title":{"rendered":"Healthcare Careers Without Patients \u2013 Featuring Tom Thomson, Managing Partner of Sanford Rose Associates\u00ae \u2013 Franklin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Lekan Oguntoyinbo\u00a0| Health Callings<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><\/em>If you want to work in the rapidly expanding healthcare field \u2014 but don\u2019t want to directly care for patients \u2014 you have a lot of options besides being a nurse or other caregiver. From healthcare administration and sales to customer service and maintenance, the growing healthcare industry offers an array of opportunities. Here are a few career options:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Information technology:<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cThe Affordable Care Act has written into it policies that encourage the use of computerized medical records,\u201d says Laurence Shatkin, who writes extensively about careers and is the author of several books, including \u201cBest Jobs for the 21<sup>st<\/sup>\u00a0Century.\u201d He says, the law is \u201ccreating an avalanche of data\u201d and experts are needed to manage all of it.<\/p>\n<p>Many healthcare IT professionals have bachelor\u2019s degrees. Some are healthcare professionals who have picked up IT skills. Many recruiters say that while having a degree is important it does not trump experience.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Business development:\u00a0<\/strong>Business development evokes thoughts of sales but it is much broader than that. Business development \u201ccan be merger and acquisition activity,\u201d says <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sanfordrose.com\/franklin\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Thomson, managing partner of Sanford Rose Associates, a recruitment firm in Nashville<\/a>. Sometimes, he says, business development could involve a healthcare company building a strategic alliance with a hospital to create a new business or some other kind of partnership. \u201cLot of times in healthcare we\u2019re not talking about traditional sales, although hospitals need to sell their services in their communities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Most business development employees have bachelor or master\u2019s degrees in business or healthcare administration.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Finance:\u00a0<\/strong>While a financial background in any industry can be transferable to healthcare, there are some key differences, which is why many healthcare facilities prefer to hire financial people who have a background in that area. \u201cThe language is different,\u201d says Thomson. \u201cThey want somebody who talks their language and understands them. So much of what you do as a chief financial officer in healthcare means you have to understand reimbursements from the insurance company or from the government \u2014 like Medicaid or Medicare.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/career-news.healthcallings.com\/2013\/04\/10\/healthcare-careers-without-patients\/\">Read the full story.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/career-news.healthcallings.com\/2013\/04\/10\/healthcare-careers-without-patients\/\">http:\/\/career-news.healthcallings.com\/2013\/04\/10\/healthcare-careers-without-patients\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Lekan Oguntoyinbo\u00a0| Health Callings If you want to work in the rapidly expanding healthcare field \u2014 but don\u2019t want to directly care for patients \u2014 you have a lot of options besides being a nurse or other caregiver. From healthcare administration and sales to customer service and maintenance, the growing healthcare industry offers an array of opportunities. Here are a few career options: Information technology:\u00a0\u201cThe Affordable Care Act has written into it policies that encourage the use of computerized medical records,\u201d says Laurence Shatkin, who writes extensively about careers and is the author of several books, including \u201cBest Jobs for the 21st\u00a0Century.\u201d He says, the law is \u201ccreating an avalanche of data\u201d and experts are needed to manage all of it. Many healthcare IT professionals have bachelor\u2019s degrees. Some are healthcare professionals who have picked up IT skills. Many recruiters say that while having a degree is important it does not trump experience. Business development:\u00a0Business development evokes thoughts of sales but it is much broader than that. Business development \u201ccan be merger and acquisition activity,\u201d says Tom Thomson, managing partner of Sanford Rose Associates, a recruitment firm in Nashville. Sometimes, he says, business development could involve a healthcare company building a strategic alliance with a hospital to create a new business or some other kind of partnership. \u201cLot of times in healthcare we\u2019re not talking about traditional sales, although hospitals need to sell their services in their communities.\u201d Most business development employees have bachelor or master\u2019s degrees in business or healthcare administration. Finance:\u00a0While a financial background in any industry can be transferable to healthcare, there are some key differences, which is why many healthcare facilities prefer to hire financial people who have a background in that area. \u201cThe language is different,\u201d says Thomson. \u201cThey want somebody who talks their language and understands them. So much of what you do as a chief financial officer in healthcare means you have to understand reimbursements from the insurance company or from the government \u2014 like Medicaid or Medicare.\u201d Read the full story. Source:\u00a0http:\/\/career-news.healthcallings.com\/2013\/04\/10\/healthcare-careers-without-patients\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[93,7,125,126,85,76],"class_list":["post-967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sra-news","tag-career-opportunities","tag-sanford-rose-associates-best-practices","tag-tom-thompson-sanford-rose-associates-franklin","tag-tom-thomson-healthcare-careers","tag-top-executive-recruiter","tag-top-retained-executive-recruiter"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Healthcare Careers Without Patients \u2013 Tom Thomson Sanford Rose<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Healthcare Careers Without Patients \u2013 Featuring Tom Thomson, Managing Partner of Sanford Rose Associates\u00ae \u2013 Franklin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sanfordrose.com\/kempfgroup\/healthcare-careers-without-patients-featuring-tom-thomson-managing-partner-of-sanford-rose-associates-franklin\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Darren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sanfordrose.com\\\/kempfgroup\\\/healthcare-careers-without-patients-featuring-tom-thomson-managing-partner-of-sanford-rose-associates-franklin\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sanfordrose.com\\\/kempfgroup\\\/healthcare-careers-without-patients-featuring-tom-thomson-managing-partner-of-sanford-rose-associates-franklin\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Darren\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sanfordrose.com\\\/kempfgroup\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/3a19b159d1fd2376d2dab6bea24e5a7d\"},\"headline\":\"Healthcare Careers Without Patients \u2013 Featuring Tom Thomson, Managing Partner of Sanford Rose Associates\u00ae \u2013 Franklin\",\"datePublished\":\"2013-04-12T19:24:01+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sanfordrose.com\\\/kempfgroup\\\/healthcare-careers-without-patients-featuring-tom-thomson-managing-partner-of-sanford-rose-associates-franklin\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":365,\"commentCount\":0,\"keywords\":[\"career opportunities\",\"Sanford Rose Associates best practices\",\"Tom Thompson Sanford Rose Associates - 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