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University-Based
University Based Training Program The Office of the National Coordinator for
Satisfying the Growing Demand for Leaders in Health IT Health Information Technology

Universities Training Health IT Professionals

Postgraduate Certificate and Master’s Degree Programs Prepare Health IT Professionals for Six Vital Roles

UBT HIT Workforce Roles: • More than 500 Health IT Graduates for
1. Clinician or Public Health Leader Hire in 2011
2. Health Information Management and Exchange Specialist • Graduates are mid-career, highly qualified
professionals, with previous experience in
3. Health Information Privacy and Security Specialist health care or IT
4. Research and Development Scientist • Universities offer distance learning
5. Programmers and Software Engineer to cover all 50 states.
6. Health IT Sub-specialist • Tuition support and training stipends available

Interested in UBT training or hiring UBT graduates? Please contact:

Partners Contact Information

certificate@dbmi.columbia.edu or appliedmasters@dbmi.columbia.edu
Columbia University http://www.dbmi.columbia.edu/ education/hit_program.html
Cornell University hit-certificate@med.cornell.edu
http://www.weill.cornell.edu/publichealth/divisions/quality_medical_informatics/certificate.html

Duke University healthinformatics@duke.edu

University of North https://www.dchi.duke.edu/
Carolina at Chapel Hill

George Washington University healthit@gwu.edu

http://www.gwumc.edu/healthit

anyhuis@regenstrief.org
Indiana University http://www.informatics.iupui.edu/HITtraining

kwinny@jhmi.edu
Johns Hopkins University http://www.jhu.edu/healthIT

Oregon Health & ludwigl@ohsu.edu

Science University http://www.ohsu.edu/ohsuedu/academic/som/dmice/onc.cfm

Texas State University purehit@txstate.edu

University of Texas http://pure-hit.health.txstate.edu/
at Austin & Houston

University of Colorado HITEC@ucdenver.edu

Denver College of Nursing http://nursing.ucdenver.edu/HITEC

University of Minnesota UP-HI@umn.edu

College of St. Scholastica http://www.uphi.umn.edu/