Considering the money that is now flowing into health IT for EHRs – undoubtedly, there will have to be someone to build, install, deploy and train personnel to use the systems. Studies estimate that there was a need for 10,000 to 15,000 new health IT professionals nationwide, but those were conducted before the enactment of [...]
Healthcare IT News reported on Friday that the government announced that $60 million is going toward the support of Health IT research projects aimed at “breakthrough” advances. David Blumenthal, MD, national coordinator for health information technology, said the money would support the development of Strategic Health IT Advanced Research Projects (SHARP). SHARP projects will conduct focused [...]
