Feds To Help Train 50,000 Health IT Workers

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."

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$3k/worker

[Anonymous Coward]

That's about $3k/worker, enough to buy books. The whole idea of EMR is unconstitutional anyway, along with 99% of what fedgov does.

Works out to $30000 per worker

[shoppa]

Take that $150M, divide it by the 50K workers, and come up with a bill of $30000 per worker.

Now, that's not the worst thing in the world, but $30000 works out to like several years tuition at many state colleges. In some case $30K will pay for a 4-year degree.

Now, the worst thing in the world: Reminds me of the cost to a local police department, $15M, to get new radios for HQ and 250 officers in the county. That worked out to $60K per officer.