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The Career Articles and Guides section contains a repository of useful articles on issues related to your career. From day-to-day hacks to terminology guides, you will find helpful tips and advice here.

Hate Your EHR? Try These 2 Simple Hacks

How can you get some EHR satisfaction sooner? Read this article for simple but helpful hacks

Quick-Start Guide to EHR Geek Speak

Does a conversation with your EHR vendor or HIT guy make you feel like you’re drowning in a sea of alphabet soup and other assorted incomprehensible jargon? Refresh your memory with this glossary and handy links to learn more.

5 Steps That Stop EHR Hassles for Good

Feel like your EHR system is a sputtering old jalopy? There’s a 50/50 chance it’s a high-performance machine you haven’t fully optimized. Feel like your EHR system is a sputtering old jalopy? There’s a 50/50 chance it’s a high-performance machine you haven’t fully optimized. If you determine you’re better off staying with your current EHR system, here are the first steps to a tune up.

35 Compliance Questions You Should Ask Your EHR and PM Software Vendors

If your vendors aren’t vigilant about privacy and security, you could find yourself drowning in HIT compliance woes. These questions, adapted from the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence, cover the topics they should be thinking about as they look out for your compliance needs. Ask a few to keep vendors on their toes and reduce your risk.

80 Percent of Large Health Care Organizations Have Been Hacked

Cyber-attacks have compromised 4 out of 5 large providers and payers over the past two years, according to a survey conducted by Forbes Insights

How Stressed Out Are Health IT Pros Today? Extremely, HealthITjobs Study Finds

Fifty-five percent of healthcare IT professionals are frequently or constantly stressed, and 38 percent said the intensity of their stress is high or extremely high, according to the new HealthITJobs.com Stress Survey.