The Community College Consortia Program includes five regional groups – Regions A, B, C, D, and E – of 82 member community colleges representing all 50 states. The member community colleges received funding to rapidly create Health IT academic programs or expand existing health IT training programs that can be completed in six months or less.
The programs are designed for professionals with an IT or health care background and focus on training students for the following professional roles:
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Practice workflow and information management redesign specialists
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Clinician/practitioner consultants
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Implementation support specialists
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Implementation managers
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Technical/software support
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Trainers
The Community College Consortia Program graduates high-caliber health information technology professionals interested in supporting the growing and evolving health IT industry.
In all, the community colleges in the program hope to train more than 10,500 new highly skilled health IT specialists by 2012.
Learn about the exceptional students enrolled in our member colleges and how you can recruit them by visiting each Region's web pages:
A,
B,
C,
D, and
E. Also be sure to check out the
student testimonials.
Learn more about the Community College Consortia to Educate Health IT Professionals in Health Care Program:
For questions relating to the Community College Consortia to Educate Health IT Professionals in Health Care Program, email
ONC.request@hhs.gov.
