Accenture Information Session at Stanford (Career Development Center)

Accenture is coming to Stanford (Career Development Center) on March 10:

March 10, 2011
Accenture- CDC Gold Partner
Accenture is hiring on your campus. Accenture Technology Labs is the technology research and development (R&D) organization of Accenture and consists of over 200 professionals in six Lab locations: Silicon Valley, Chicago, Washington D.C., France, India and China.

Event Description: During this informal talk, we would like to tell you about Accenture’s R&D efforts and discuss some open positions we are looking to hire for in our labs. A few consultants and analysts from the San Jose lab will be on campus to chat with you about Accenture TechLabs, answer questions you might have about launching your career at Accenture, and critique/review resumes. Come with questions and/or an interest in Accenture consulting - we are excited to meet you! To ensure that we have a good consultant to attendee ratio, please RSVP to rohit.bakhshi@accenture.com if you plan to attend the Info Session.

Our R&D team explores emerging and disruptive technologies to create prototypes of how technology will shape the future three to five years out. We invent the next wave of cutting-edge business solutions for our clients who include 96 of the Fortune Global 100 and more than three quarters of the Fortune Global 500. Our prototypes span a wide range of technologies, including cyber warfare, cryptography, smart grids, NoSQL, MapReduce, cloud computing, and social analytics.

Consulting jobs in the health IT industry at #HIMSS11

There are a number of health IT consulting jobs advertised here at HIMSS11. Here are a few examples of who's hiring at HIMSS11:

Accenture

• Health & Public Service - Connected Health Ambulatory EMR Implementation Consultant
• MC Pharmacy Benefit Management Consultant
• MC Payer Operations and Excellence Consultant

Ernst & Young

• Advisory Manager - Performance Improvement - Healthcare - Managed Care - Provider
• Positions in: NYC, San Francisco, and Chicago

Accenture is looking for a Physician Informaticist

According to a job post discussion on LinkedIn, Accenture (Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company) is looking for a Physician Informaticist. As many consulting jobs, this one probably requires close to 100% travel. Here's the scoop (from the LinkedIn job post):

Accenture's Health & Public Service operating group seeking Physicians with backgrounds in Informatics. The Physician Informaticist provides the essential interface between information technology and clinical care processes. The Physician Informaticist must help lead Accenture's Provider Clinical Solutions Practice and our client teams in the following areas:

• The role of Healthcare IT (HIT) in improving quality, safety, and efficiency of healthcare delivery.
• Design and implementation of clinical HIT systems.
• The use of HIT systems as part of an overall health information exchange.
• Additionally, the Physician Informaticist must play the following roles on client projects:
• Act as the translator between physicians, clinicians and IS across the continuum of care.
• Promote HIT system usability, process improvement, change management and ensure that clinicians are engaged in the entire consulting process.
• Provide clinical consulting direction as to the design and implementation of the clinical systems.
• Create the clinician change champion strategy for the clinical community in partnership with medical staff leaders to ensure value realization with technology investments.
• Educate, involve, and support physicians and other users of clinical information systems.
• Demonstrate Accenture core values of Stewardship, Best People, Client Value Creation, One Global Network, Respect for the Individual, and Integrity.
• Understand and import best practices in clinical informatics from other organizations.

Work with Accenture team and clients to:
- develop and recommend a clinical informatics strategy and specific tactics that support the clients' vision.
- lead development of information technology roadmap's and tactics that support the clients' vision.

- ensure that clinicians are effectively involved in all IT related decisions which impact clinical processes.

- create and manage a physician technology adoption program to ensure high adoption rates of clinical applications.

- collaborate with medical staff leaders to bring standard, evidence based order sets in support of CPOE.

- lead efforts to constrain medical vocabulary and align with national standards for the regional clinical applications

Ability to travel 100%
Basic Qualifications:
M.D. degree. A degree in Informatics is preferred but not required.
5 years clinical experience
5 years leadership or consulting experience
5 years experience with one or more of the following advanced clinical system applications: Computerized Physician Order Entry, Physician documentation, clinical decision support.

Preferred Skill Requirements:
Proven ability to build, manage and foster a team-oriented environment
Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment
Desire to work in an information systems environment
Excellent communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills
Excellent leadership and management skills

All of our consulting professionals receive comprehensive training covering business acumen, technical and professional skills development. You'll also have opportunities to hone your functional skills and expertise in an area of specialization. We offer a variety of formal and informal training programs at every level to help you acquire and build specialized skills faster. Learning takes place both on the job and through formal training conducted online, in the classroom, or in collaboration with teammates. The sheer variety of work we do, and the experience it offers, provide an unbeatable platform from which to build a career.

To view this job post on LinkedIn, join "The Medical Informatics Physician" group on LinkedIn and visit the "Jobs" tab.

BusinessWeek Top 50 companies to launch your career

BusinessWeek has a list of 50 companies that are considered the "best places to launch your career." This guide isn't just for college grads. It could really apply to people who are in transition as well. I glanced at the list of 50 companies and I'd like to highlight a few that might be relevant for healthcare professionals who are interested in making the switch into the non-clinical world of medicine. Here are some of the companies that may interest you:

• Goldman Sachs (investment banking): ranked #6
  
• J.P. Morgan (investment banking): ranked #9
• Accenture (consulting): ranked #11
• Abbott Laboratories (health): ranked #13
• Merck (health): ranked #37
• Johnson & Johnson (health): ranked #41
• Protiviti (consulting): ranked #49

I realize that most physicians don't end up getting careers in investment banking. However, if you go into market research or if you pursue opportunities with venture capital firms, then you may have some significant interactions with investment banking clients. Who knows, maybe you'll even want to get an MBA in finance and go into investment banking.

We all know that consulting is very popular. Have you considered the companies listed above? If you can't work at McKinsey, would you consider other options?

Finally, in the health industry, the companies listed are no surprise. With all the mergers occurring in the world of biotech and pharma, we're sure to see displaced people in the upcoming months. Where will they end up settling?

Jobs in Healthcare Consulting

If you could become a healthcare consultant, where would you want to work? McKinsey, Bain, Boston Consulting Group (BCG), or Booz? Perhaps you may be looking for jobs with AT Kearney, Navigant, Accenture, Deloitte. Do you know what it takes to get a job in healthcare consulting? If you're looking for a competitive edge and you're willing to make an investment in your career, then you may want to consider investing in a career coach or mentor who has some first-hand experience working in a consulting firm.

As our nation prepares for some major changes within the healthcare system, I see that more opportunities will open up in the world of healthcare consulting. So many questions will need to get answered before we truly know what type of impact these healthcare reform changes will have on different industries ranging from pharma to managed care to hospital systems to actual physicians.