Friday, April 1, 2011 – 2:00-3:30 PM EDT, 12:00 – 1:30 PM MDT Sponsored by HRSA’s Office of HIT & Quality Webinar will feature three expert speakers discussing health IT workforce challenges and solutions in overcoming them. Training, development, and retention of the workforce are critical challenges for successfully implementing and sustaining a health information technology (IT) system in health centers and critical access hospitals. The U.S. Department of Labor estimates that 150,000 health IT professionals will be needed in the future for the nation to successfully become meaningful users of health IT systems.

Presenters are:

Angela Duncan Diop, ND, Director of Information Systems, Unity Health Care, Inc. Chief Information Officer of the 30-site health center network, Unity Health Care, and HRSA grantee, Ms. Diop will talk about how Unity identified, assessed, and overcame long- and short-term health IT workforce challenges.

Kay Gooding, Director of the Health IT Program, Pitt Community College

P. David Falkenstein, MS, PA-C, DFAAPA, Director of HIM Programs, Northern Virginia Community College

To register for this webinar, click here.