Computerworld Names Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta to 2025 List of Best Places to Work in IT
ATLANTA (December 10, 2024) – Foundry's Computerworld announces Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta as a 2025 Best Places to Work in IT. This award recognizes the top organizations that challenge their IT staffs while providing great benefits and compensation. Organizations will be included in coverage on Computerworld.com along with results from the 2025 Best Places to Work in IT survey.
“We are incredibly proud to have sustained our top-25 ranking for the seventh time, particularly after having just opened Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta Arthur M. Blank Hospital, one of the most technologically advanced healthcare facilities in the nation,” said Jeremy Meller, Chief Information Officer of Children’s. “Nearly 200,000 hours of IT-team effort went into the opening, which utilizes technology to provide care that is more connected and integrated than ever before. Looking ahead, our team continues to be laser-focused on building safe, more predictive, integrated and coordinated solutions to increase collaboration between clinical teams, provide tools for more dynamic patient engagement, and streamline workflows. We have a unique opportunity to combine passion for developing leading edge technology with a desire to make a difference.”
The information technology division at Children’s brings together analysts, developers, technicians, engineers and information architects to manage every application and piece of sensitive digital data in order to protect patients’ health information. The daily focus is to keep technology up to date and running smoothly while also pursuing innovation to help ensure Children’s remains on the forefront of healthcare technology.
“This year’s focus on AI has created demand for new skills in AI, data analytics, and cloud. The good news: Leading companies recognize that these opportunities for business innovation also create new opportunities for internal IT talent,” says Barbara Call, global director of content strategy at Foundry. “Our winning companies are committed to keeping their tech workforce happy and engaged – which means going beyond raises, perks, and promotions to offer opportunities for upskilling and training on cutting-edge and emerging technologies.”
About the Best Places to Work in IT
The Best Places to Work in IT list is an annual ranking of the top work environments for technology professionals by Foundry's Computerworld. The list is compiled based on a comprehensive questionnaire regarding company offerings in categories such as benefits, career development, DEI, future of work, training and retention. In addition, the rankings are reviewed and vetted by a panel of industry experts.
About Children's Healthcare of Atlanta
As the only freestanding pediatric healthcare system in Georgia, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta is the trusted leader in caring for kids. The not-for-profit organization’s mission is to make kids better today and healthier tomorrow through more than 60 pediatric specialties and programs, top healthcare professionals, and leading research and technology. Children’s is one of the largest pediatric clinical care providers in the country, managing more than one million patient visits annually at three hospitals (Arthur M. Blank, Hughes Spalding and Scottish Rite), Marcus Autism Center, the Center for Advanced Pediatrics, the Zalik Behavior and Mental Health Center, urgent care centers and neighborhood locations. Consistently ranked among the top children’s hospitals by U.S. News & World Report, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta has impacted the lives of kids in Georgia, across the United States and around the world for more than 100 years thanks to generous support from the community.
About Computerworld
Computerworld is the leading technology media brand empowering enterprise users and their managers, helping them create business advantage by skillfully exploiting today's abundantly powerful web, mobile, and desktop applications. Computerworld also offers guidance to IT managers tasked with optimizing client systems—and helps businesses revolutionize the customer and employee experience with new collaboration platforms. Computerworld's award-winning website (www.computerworld.com (http://www.computerworld.com)), strategic marketing solutions and research forms the hub of the world's largest global IT media network and provides opportunities for IT vendors to engage this audience. Computerworld is published by IDG. Communications, Inc. Company information is available at www.idg.com.
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