U.S. Healthcare Workforce Shortages: HIT

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Global Institute for Emerging Healthcare Practices

A challenge facing the health care industry today and in the near future is growing workforce shortages. A product of industry growth and demands for reform, it includes growing shortages of both caregivers (see “U.S. Health Care Workforce Shortages: Caregivers”) and health care information technology workers.

This paper describes the HIT workforce shortage, its sources and causes, and what is being done and must be done to address them – including efforts from within the industry and as legislated by the HITECH Act included in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

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