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Crosstraining for Healthcare and IT Professionals

The HITECH Workforce Program is an intensive, online, six-month, non-degree education designed to provide a qualified pool of Healthcare and IT workers to ensure a successful:

• Nationwide adoption of Electronic Health Records (EHRs),
• Information exchange across health care providers and public health authorities,
• Redesign of workflows within health care settings to gain quality and efficient benefits of EHRs,
• EHR Transition while maintaining privacy and security of medical information.

The HITECH Workforce Program is designed to cross train professionals with a background in healthcare or Information Technology. Training will provide the individuals knowledge, skills, and aptitudes necessary to implement an electronic health records system in hospitals, physician's offices and clinics.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics and Department of Education, approximately 50,000 qualified health information technology workers will be needed to meet the federal mandate which requires all healthcare providers to implement Electronic Health Records (EHR) by 2015.

Downloadable Brochure (pdf file)

Classes Start:     

May 30, 2012

July 18, 2012

September 6, 2012 - last class with subsidized tuition

HITECH Application

HITECH - Health Information Technology for Economic and Critical Health 

Electronic Health Record Implementation

Office of National Coordinator, Department of Health and Human Services support, under grant number 90CC0078. Said grant was issued under the authority of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, 2009 (P.L. 111-5), Title XIII. To learn more about this grant, go to www.healthit.hhs.gov

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For more information on the HITECH program, contact:

hitech@midland.edu
432-685-6891