Feds To Help Train 50,000 Health IT Workers 212
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Lucas123 writes "The US Department of Health and Human Services is spending about $144 million on grant programs at more than 80 colleges and universities to help fill a void of about 50,000 workers for IT jobs in the healthcare industry. The workers are needed to help hospitals, physician practices and other healthcare entities to roll out electronic medical records, which the government is promoting through the use of reimbursement funds for those who implement EMRs and penalties for those who don't. The Health IT courses are set to begin this fall in five regions around the US and are aimed exclusively at workers who have previous IT or healthcare experience."
Re:Works out to $30000 per worker (Score:4, Funny)
You may have left your sliderule out in the rain.
Re:Windows != IT (Score:2, Funny)