The market behind your search

The work is local.
The competition has widened.

A healthcare IT professional can build a career inside a health system, with a consulting firm, at a managed services provider, or at a technology company. Your role has to make sense alongside those choices.

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What changed

Hiring has changed.
So have people's expectations.

Remote work expanded the field. Across the U.S. workforce, the share working primarily from home rose from 5.7% in 2019 to 17.9% in 2021. This is a broad workforce measure, rather than a healthcare IT estimate.

In our recruiting conversations, we see the practical effect: people weigh flexibility, the work itself, leadership, compensation, and a credible path forward.

U.S. Census Bureau source

The pressure behind the vacancy

The work keeps coming.

An open role can become a retention problem for the people already there.

Your team covers the gap.

Experienced people absorb more support, more decisions, and more interruptions.

Projects compete for attention.

The work that should move you forward has to share space with daily operations.

The next hire matters more.

Understanding the pressure helps us search for the experience your team actually needs.

Healthcare IT Talent Report

What makes people move?
What makes them stay?

Explore salary benchmarks and workforce perspectives behind your next hiring decision.

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About these findings

Bloomforce's 2025 workforce survey, fielded Nov. 12, 2024–Jan. 31, 2025. Findings describe respondents, rather than representative estimates of all healthcare IT workers. Report access is requested separately using your work email.

48.3%

of surveyed leaders identified uncompetitive compensation as a hiring challenge.

28 of 58 leaders · multiple answers allowed

2025 Bloomforce survey · respondent findings

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your team needs to do.

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