John P. Houston, a lawyer at the UPMC Health System, affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh, said hospitals would have to buy expensive information technology, hire and train employees, and rewrite contracts with hundreds of suppliers to comply with the rules.
Some employers would rather spend on information technology than hire the wrong workers.
But the State of SMB IT Report says that information technology companies are hiring!
Most information technology companies that are hiring in India now are looking for people with more than three years of experience, Mr. Garg said, and he has just two.
With the dot-com bust and the downturn in corporate technology spending, many information technology consultants can be hired on the cheap, executives said.
As the worldwide economic crisis grinds on, companies continue to hire information technology professionals.
He was outspoken on issues of minority hiring in information technology.
Among longer-term upgrades are plans for a "virtual hold" phone system that allows claimants to get speedy call-backs when lines are tied up, hiring of information technology experts to help fix lingering computer problems and the eventual installation of a more complete website for filing online claims.
Last fall, DocuServe added another division to help law firms hire paralegals, information technology professionals, accountants and administrative assistants.
American companies will try to hire 900,000 information technology workers this year, but in 425,000 of those cases they simply will not find job-seekers with the needed skills and training, according to a report today by the Information Technology Association of America, an industry trade group based in Washington.
