For workforce centers and partner organizations, providing services to reentry customers on parole or probation can seem like a hopeless task. There are a multitude of unique barriers with this population, especially during a recession, when jobs are already scarce. Life Skills Education (LSE) recently published four instructional booklets as part of a Defendant/Offender Reentry [...]
The following is a tentative Agenda for the San Diego Regional HealthTECH Workforce Forum, sponsored in part by the San Diego Workforce Partnership and National University Conference Schedule 8:00 to 8:45 am Continental Breakfast Exhibit Area 8:45 to 9:15 am Welcome and Opening Remarks with Acknowledgements 9:15 to 10:15 am Keynote Speaker [...]
The information below lists HIT job titles and descriptions, where available, and the corresponding average salary or salary range. The research focuses on the higher-end, professional level positions that generally require individuals with strong IT or healthcare work experience. Sources: HIT/HIM and health care associations Salary websites Department of Labor USAJobs Job Postings Market Surveys [...]
Section 3016 of the HITECH Act authorizes the creation of a program to assist in the establishment and/or expansion of education programs designed to train a highly skilled workforce of health information technology (health IT) professionals to effectively put in place and enable the use of secure, interoperable electronic health record systems. Under that authority, [...]
The following is an April 20, 2010 interview with Richard Katz, Publisher of NetAssets and HIT national workforce expert. The interview began with some recent announcements about the funding of Regional Extension Centers. The so-called RECs are “supposed to literally provide medical electronic record electornic consulting services, primarily to doctors in rural areas,” Katz said. [...]
1. Name of program – The Healthcare Information Technology Program at UC San Diego Extension 2. How funded – UC San Diego applied for ARRA job training funds through the San Diego Workforce Partnership. This funding runs out at the end of summer 2010. 3. Community Partners – the San Diego Workforce Partnership, and our [...]
Below are the twenty (20) curriculum components being translated into lesson plans, instructor notes and Power Point presentations by the five universities that have received funding. The curriculum will be used by the 70 community colleges to train HIT students beginning in September 2010. 1 Health: Introduction to Health Care and Public Health in [...]
To better understand the workforce needs created by HITECH, ONC convened a panel of technical experts, including educators and industry representatives. The experts identified the competencies required by six specific HIT workforce roles, which will be critical as providers begin to implement EHRs in large numbers, and for which training can be completed in six [...]
Click here: Hot Careers for College Graduates 2010.pdf by UC San Diego Extension
Background The Federal healthcare reform law, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Healthcare Reform Act), will bring substantial number uninsured persons into the nation’s healthcare delivery system. In addition to current workforce shortages, serving the previously uninsured will require the providers of healthcare goods and services to hire additional personnel. In anticipation of the [...]
