Encore Webinar Presentation Preparing the Nation's Workforce for Health Information Technology (HIT) aka Electronic Medical Records Hosted by   Wednesday, May 19, 2010/2:00 to 3:30 pm EDT Register Today! "Your webinar on Health Information Technology provided tremendous amount of background information that will empower local boards, community colleges, and other participants to develop their own strategies tailored to their own local conditions, I recommend the webinar to others." Scott Anglemyer, Executive Director, Workforce Partnership WIB of Kansas The $20 billion in health information technology (HIT) stimulus funding, provided through ARRA to incentivize physician adoption of electronic health records (EHR), will create unprecedented growth in demand for EHR systems in hundreds of thousands of healthcare providers. Meeting this demand is not as simple as producing and selling more EHR systems. Analyzing needs, selecting and buying hardware and software, customizing installations to fit the clinical specialization, providing on-going customer support, and most importantly incumbent training, is a complex process, requiring expertise in a variety of highly specialized occupations. HIT's impact on future healthcare worker skills is not fully understood. What we do know today is that the Department of Health and Human Services and DOL has allocated over $750 million to ensure a qualified workforce will be prepared to transform 90% of all healthcare providers by 2014—a monumental change in the healthcare work process, impacting 16% of our total economy. Putting the Pieces Together This Webinar will put the pieces of the HIT puzzle together in a way that will give you an effective working knowledge of HIT's impact on the healthcare workforce. During the presentation and Q and A session, you will get answers to these questions: How will HIT implementation impact the healthcare industry, improve services and reduce costs? Who are the stakeholders and how will they benefit from HIT transformation? What jobs are being created or changed by the HIT program? What skills and training are necessary for workers to be qualified for HIT jobs? How will workers be trained and which institutions have been funded to do the training? What qualifications will training organizations look for to enroll students and perform incumbent training? What is the timetable for HIT implementation? Who has been awarded HIT funding and how can you partner with them? How will HIT funding produce job opportunities for your clients? How to increase your organization’s value to your community by providing a HIT stakeholders conference? How to access HIT funding through subcontracting with community colleges, universities, Regional Extension Centers and public health agencies? What next steps should you now take to get into the HIT game? The Webinar includes a case study presentation from University of California San Diego Extension describing initial first year HIT training and placement results. Attendees will also receive a complete set of presentation slides, a list of agencies receiving federal funding pertaining to workforce development programming, and elaborations on the information provided during the presentation. All registered attendees can submit questions prior to the event by emailing rkatz@hrms.net. As time permits, the presenter will answer those questions during the presentation. Richard Katz, Webinar Presenter Following a successful HR career with Federated Department Stores, Richard founded Human Resource Marketing Services, Inc. (HRMS).  In 1983, HRMS created the first use of Video Resumes for employment screening followed by producing a series of half-hour regularly scheduled TV recruitment programs on broadcast television.  For his pioneering TV recruitment programming, Richard won the SHRM Pericles Award in 1988. In 1993, HRMS launched its workforce development division, designing and managing customized job training programs using JTPA and WIA funding.  In 1999, HRMS created Dot.com Job Search, an online and classroom course on Internet job searching.  Since 2001, HRMS has been publishing NetAssets, an electronic newsletter that reaches over 20,000 workforce development professionals.  Mr. Katz holds a Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration from UCLA and an M.A. in Industrial Relations from the University of Minnesota. Register today for this important and very timely May 19, 2010, 2:00 to 3:30 pm EDT Webinar hosted by Dynamic Works