Source
ONC HITECH Workforce Programs Operations Data. Download the Workforce Program open dataset
Citation
Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. 'Students Trained for Health IT Employment through the HITECH Workforce Development Programs,' Health IT Quick-Stat #20. https://www.healthit.gov/data/quickstats/hitech-workforce-development-programs. March 2014.
HITECH funded two distinct health IT workforce training programs: the University-Based Training Program and Community College Consortia Program. In total the two programs trained 21,437 students from all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands at 91 academic institutions.
- For more information, please read the Workforce Development Programs Final Evaluation Report, completed by NORC of the University of Chicago.
- For a quick summarization of Workforce Development Programs results, check out this ONC InfoGraphic.