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If you answered yes to either question, the HIT Workforce Training Program can help you prepare for a field that is expected to need qualified personnel.
Broward College, which is a member of the Community College Consortia Grant Program, is offering federally funded intensive non-degree training programs of six months or less which began fall 2010. These certificate programs have been designed to provide training for a pool of qualified workers. The training will ensure that the electronic health record project will provide the quality and efficiency benefits needed in the healthcare community while maintaining privacy and security of medical information.
For more information, contact: Funding for this project was made available through the Office of the National Coordinator, Department of Health and Human Services, award number 90CC0078/01 under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 Public Law 111-5: Information Technology Professionals in Health Care: Community College Consortia to Educate Information Technology Professionals in Health Care. |
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By the year 2015, all healthcare providers will be required to implement electronic health records (EHR) by the Department Health and Human Services. In order to support this project, it is anticipated that there will be a high demand in several types of health IT professionals. The federal government expects to train in excess of 50,000 health IT professionals by 2014.
This training is intended to qualify participants for new positions, advancement, enhanced earnings, allow current healthcare employees to retain jobs that may have otherwise been lost due to inability to keep up with emerging health information technology.