Elizabeth Chapman | March 18, 2014
Using online training tools based on the ONC funded health IT workforce curricula, more than 700 Veterans Affairs staff logged thousands of course hours over eight weeks in health informatics training in an effort to improve the way care is delivered to and managed by Veterans.
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William Hersh | March 10, 2014
For those of us involved in educating the workforce of health information technology (HIT) professionals and leaders, the past few years have been quite a journey. While funding for the HITECH Workforce Development Program has ended, the longer-term goal of creating the experts who develop, implement, and evaluate health IT across the health care system goes on.
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Chitra Mohla | March 10, 2014
If you want to get out of medicine the fullest enjoyment, be students all your lives.
David Riesman (1867- 1940)
Funding for the ONC Health IT Workforce Training Programs, first awarded in March 2010, ended on September 30, 2013. The goal of this program was to train a workforce that would be ready to usher in the digital information age in health care.
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Michelle Consolazio | February 5, 2014
Dr. Barbara Yawn | January 21, 2014
When the Beacon Program began in 2010, ONC asked that each of us take steps to align our health IT investments with the top population health priorities for our community. Along with several other Beacon Communities, we in Southeast Minnesota selected children’s health, with a clinical focus on pediatric asthma.
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