Health It Professionals

• University-Based Training

  Help more than 1,500 people receive certificates.

  Focuses on the following professional roles:

  • Clinician or public health leader
  • Health information management and exchange specialist
  • Health information privacy and security specialist
  • Research and development scientist
  • Programmers and software engineer
  • Health IT sub-specialist

  Program of Assistance for University-Based Training

  • Quickly establish or expand health IT training programs for health IT professional roles requiring training at the university level
  • Help more than 1,500 people receive certificates of advanced study or master's degrees in health IT

• • Curriculum Development Centers

    Development of educational materials.

  • Community College Consortia

    Help train more than 10,500 new Health IT professionals.

  • Competency Examination Program

    Basic Competency Assessment

  Focuses on the following professional roles:

  • Practice workflow and information management redesign specialists
  • Clinician/practitioner consultants
  • Implementation support specialists
  • Implementation managers
  • Technical/software support
  • Trainers

  Community College Consortia

  • Intensive, non-degree training programs that can be completed in six months or less
  • Help address the growing demand for highly skilled health IT specialists
  • Help train more than 10,500 new health IT professionals annually by 2012

  Curriculum Development Centers

  • Development of educational materials for the Community College Consortia program
  • Materials available to institutions of higher education across the country

  Competency Examination Program

  • Development and initial administration of a set of health IT competency examinations
  • Assess basic competency for two types of individuals
    1. Individuals trained through short-duration, non-degree health IT programs
    2. Members of the workforce with relevant experience or other types of training