Health IT Workforce Training Program

Health information technology allows comprehensive management of medical information and its secure exchange between health care consumers and providers. Broad use of HIT has the potential to improve health care quality, prevent medical errors, increase the efficiency of care provision and reduce unnecessary health care costs, increase administrative efficiencies, decrease paperwork, expand access to affordable care and improve population health.

This intensive, non-degree education is designed to provide a qualified pool of workers with both a medical body of knowledge and an IT body of knowledge to ensure the adoption of electronic health records (EHRs), information exchange across health care providers and public health authorities and the redesign of workflows within health care settings to gain the quality and efficiency benefits of EHRs, while maintaining privacy and security of medical information.