Government Announces $80 Million in Grants to Develop Health Care Information Technology Workforce
The grants will go to five consortia comprising 70 community colleges nationwide and will create six-month nondegree programs to train 10,000 workers a year to help set up and maintain electronic health record systems.
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November 25, 2009
Government Announces $80 Million in Grants to Develop Health Care Information Technology Workforce
David Blumenthal, head of the Department of Health and Human Services’
Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, announced
that HHS will make available $70 million in grants to community colleges to
address an estimated shortfall of 50,000 workers needed in health care IT.
The grants will go to five consortia comprising 70 community colleges
nationwide.
Details of the programs will be released soon in an official notice and call
for grant applications. Blumenthal made the announcement Tuesday, November 24,
in a telephone news conference.
Charles Friedman, the ONC’s deputy national coordinator, who also attended
the news briefing, said the grants could, at the colleges’ discretion, include
funding for scholarships for tech students.
“The programs will be designed to be implemented as quickly as possible,”
Friedman said. “The need is quite profound.”
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