Certification Paths:
Applied Health Information Technology
Many national healthcare leaders have speculated that a new workforce crisis is emerging. This crisis will impact the Presidential mandate to employ needed health information technologies (HIT) in healthcare delivery systems across the country in the coming years.
As the U.S. healthcare industry begins to convert antiquated paper record systems to modern information technology systems, it lacks a comprehensive plan to educate a comprehensive HIT workforce that will support this transformation. As a result, the ability to hire HIT professionals may become a serious limiting factor in the adoption and implementation of electronic health records (EHR) and other health information technologies.
Meeting the increasing demands will require responses from both the U.S. health care industry and institutions of higher education. According to the National Coordinator for Health IT at the DHHS ñ an expected 50,000 skilled HIT practitioners will be needed to meet the market demands. These programs are designed to address the need for the skilled HIT workforce of tomorrow.
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT is offering a limited number of $10,000 tuition supplements to Johns Hopkins Informatics Certificate students in all 3 programs, provided the training is completed in 12 months.
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