ONC makes second reference to federal training program
Bernie Monegain reported for Healthcare IT News on October 23, 2009 that John Glaser, advisor to the Director of Health IT David Blumenthal, ”said the federal government will ‘put some money on the table’ for training.” Federal, healthcare organizations, and vendors will need to fund training necessary at universities and community colleges according to Glaser, speaking  at the Connected Health Symposium in Boston last week. Along with Glaser, an expert panel seemed to agree that 50,000 new jobs would be needed and created in the health information technology workforce.

In first public reference, Blumenthal mentioned upcoming ONC initiative in job training in October 6, 2009 speech to AHIMA’s annual meeting.

In August 2009, ONC held a tw0-day workshop at Vanderbilt University with a broad group of experts to describe the necessary workforce training and certification to produce six types of new roles to support implementation of EHRs: implementation support specialists, practice workflow and information management redesign specialists, clinician consultants, implementation managers, technical/software support staff, and implementation managers. Workshop was first reported in October 4, 2009 post on e-Healthcare Marketing.