The Need to Build the Health IT Workforce
April 22nd, 2008
On April 17, 2008, I had the opportunity to present some research findings about the health information technology (HIT) workforce to the Capitol Hill Steering Committee on Telehealth and Healthcare Informatics in Washington, DC. I was introduced by our Congressman, David Wu (D-OR), whose legislation in this area (the 10,000 Trained by 2010 Act, named after a course I developed by the same name) has passed the House but is awaiting action in the Senate. Here are some documents and links related to the event:
- The report of the findings
- Slides and references from the talk
- A press release from Oregon Health & Science University
- A press release from HIMSS, whose HIMSS Analytics™ Database was used to provide data for the report
- An audio report on the California Health Care Foundation’s iHealthBeat
- An article in Healthcare IT News
- An article in Modern Healthcare
- A posting on iHealthBeat
- A posting on the Federal Telemedicine News blog
- An article in Health Data Management
- A posting on Science Daily
I was introduced at the session by Congressman Wu, shown with me below.
