How Digital Health Companies Attract Software Engineers: Human Resource Management

The previous articles in this series discussed what kinds of programmers do well and enjoy working in a digital health company. This final article looks at some important aspects of culture and how to cultivate the developers you have. Allow Programmer Creativity, With Sensitivity Several of my respondents talked about giving professionals flexibility and autonomy. But programmers need to be sensitive to the unique needs of patients and clinicians. Health care is far different from most of the other industries they’re used to working in. As Anmol Madan, co-founder and CEO of RadiantGraph, puts it, software engineers “need to learn the humility to listen to people with clinical expertise.” At the same time, you want programmers to feel they have some control over their designs and direction. They need to be creative to be happy—but creative in a productive way. Fugere says you need to “cultivate a common vision focused on driving change”—not a simple task. I heard an incident from a psychiatrist friend of mine that illustrated the risk of programmers who are disengaged from clinical needs. The psychiatrist had been placed on a programming team to offer guidance about what her clinical staff needed. At one meeting, the programmers boasted enthusiastically that they had found a way to let clinicians change the font on their reports. Predictably, this did not impress my friend, who had much more urgent features to ask for. ModMed, which develop...
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