3,000 Students Set To Graduate From Health IT Training Programs

This month, more than 3,000 individuals will graduate from 82 Community College Consortia health IT training programs, Modern Healthcare reports.

The non-degree training programs -- which are designed to help students develop health IT skills -- are funded by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT as part of its Health IT Workforce Development Program. 

The program was launched in 2010 with $36 million in funding, and in January ONC allocated an additional $32 million in funding.

ONC says the programs will help train more than 10,000 new health IT professionals annually by the end of next year (McKinney, Modern Healthcare, 4/11).

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