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Fulcrum Methods, the leading provider of methodologies for healthcare IT, will include curriculum and training programs for education and professional development purposes.

An essential component of the program is designed to address the shortfall of skilled IT personnel needed to implement and support a national electronic healthcare system.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the Department of Education and others, there will be a shortfall of 51,000 qualified health IT workers required over the next five years to meet the needs of hospitals and physicians as they adopt electronic health records (EHRs). Adoption of EHRs by the medical community is being driven by the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act of 2009 (HITECH), which provides incentives to advance the appropriate use of healthcare IT.

"We're very excited about this initiative. Our methodologies and the embedded competencies are a perfect fit for developing individual skills in health information technology," said Joseph DeLuca, Knowledge Architect at Fulcrum Methods. "Our decades of expertise and proven, deployed products for software vendor selection, systems implementation, technology planning, program and project management, IT-driven process redesign, and managing organizational change forms the basis of an extraordinarily thorough, high-value yet practical curriculum."

The Fulcrum Methods curriculum and training program can be used directly by the higher education system in response to a development grant in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, Information Technology Professionals in Health Care: Curriculum Development Centers. 

The Fulcrum Methods curriculum and training program can also be used directly by healthcare organizations, consulting service organizations, and software or technology vendors to advance the healthcare IT skills and capabilities of their workforce. 

Source: Fulcrum Methods

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