HIT Consultant June 17, 2021
Jasmine Pennic

What You Should Know:

– The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) today announced the establishment of an $80M Public Health Informatics & Technology Workforce Development Program (PHIT Workforce Program) to strengthen U.S. public health informatics and data science.

– The PHIT Workforce Program aims to train more than 4,000 individuals over a four-year period through an interdisciplinary approach in public health informatics and technology.

PHIT Workforce Program Overview

Under the PHIT Workforce Program, ONC will award up to $75 million to cooperative agreement recipients and use the remaining $5M to support the program’s overall administration. Award recipients will need to ensure their training, certificate, degree, and placement...

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