How Digital Health Companies Attract Software Engineers: Strategies

The first article in this series laid out the challenges in recruiting programmers to digital health firms and who tends to make a strong contributor in those firms. Now we can cover the strategies companies use and the arguments they make. Make an Important Difference in Society Dean says that many programmers choose health IT over other industries because they want to do something positive for humanity. The programmer may have suffered a health crisis, or seen family members go through one. In any case, they find more meaning in health IT than retail, finance, or social media. Dean’s observation matches what I’ve seen interviewing managers in health IT over the years. Many made their money and built their expertise in other industries, then decided to do a reset and launch a new career in health. And many managers told me they use social impacts as an incentive to recruit tech staff. Anmol Madan, co-founder and CEO of RadiantGraph, calls the mission the “most important piece” of recruitment. Equity is an important related value: Show that your solution will improve outcomes for people who have had trouble getting health care because of race, gender, geography, culture, or disability. Jimmie Poeng, director of solutions at Dedalus, believes that health IT is intrinsically appealing to good job candidates: “Healthcare, especially in the U.S., is ripe for disruption. The opportunities to innovate and make a real impact on people’s healthca...
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