In addition to providing incentive payments for meaningful use of electronic health records, the HITECH Act calls for the development of a properly trained health IT workforce to support providers in becoming meaningful users of certified EHRs.
The fact sheet lays out the following statistics regarding the health IT workforce:
• Community colleges had trained 17,049 professionals in health IT as of January 2013.
• Universities had graduated over 820 post-graduate and masters-level health IT professionals as of September 2012.
This is the result of ONC-supported workforce development programs that help train new health IT professionals, according to the fact sheet.
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More Than 50K HIT Jobs Created Since Enactment of HITECH Act
The Bureau of Labor Statistics states that more than 50,000
health IT-related jobs have been created since the Health Information
Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act was enacted in 2009, according
to a fact
sheet released by CMS and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health
Information Technology.
In addition to providing incentive payments for meaningful
use of electronic health records, the HITECH Act calls for the development of a
properly trained health IT workforce to support providers in becoming
meaningful users of certified EHRs.
The fact sheet lays out the following statistics regarding
the health IT workforce:
- Community
colleges had trained 17,049 professionals in health IT as of January 2013. - Universities
had graduated over 820 post-graduate and masters-level health IT
professionals as of September 2012.
This is the result of ONC-supported workforce development
programs that help train new health IT professionals, according to the fact
sheet.
More Articles on Health IT Workforce:
5 Go-To Strategies for Hiring Health IT Workers During a
Shortage
HIMSS, Human Resources Group Collaborate to Drive Health IT
Workforce Initiatives
CHIME Reports Shortage in Health IT Workforce
