First Community College Consortia Health IT Professionals Graduate!

ONC is excited for the students who will be moving into promising new careers, for the health care providers who will have qualified staff to guide them through the transition to health IT, and for all the patients who stand to benefit from the increased quality and safer care made possible by health IT.

Health care providers and hospitals across the nation are increasingly transitioning from paper to EHRs. Your expertise and skills, and the training you have received through the Community College Consortia Program, will be critical to facilitating this transition. Many of you have years of professional experience already, and now have the additional, specialized training to successfully perform in the following six critical health IT workforce roles:

• Practice workflow and information management redesign specialists
• Clinician/practitioner consultants
• Implementation support specialists
• Implementation managers
• Technical/software support
• Trainers
• Recruiting Our Graduates

This month, the Health IT Buzz Blog featured a series of blog posts from each of the five regions of the Community College Consortia Program showcasing the high-caliber students enrolled in health IT programs at our member colleges.

Employers such as health care facilities, consulting agencies, and software companies that are interested in recruiting our students are encouraged to contact the member community college in their region. Our website also offers helpful resources for recruiting our students.

ONC is excited for the students who will be moving into promising new careers, for the health care providers who will have qualified staff to guide them through the transition to health IT, and for all the patients who stand to benefit from the increased quality and safer care made possible by health IT.