The consortia training program, launched a year ago by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, was intended to address the need to add 50,000 more health IT professionals to the workforce as America converts to a healthcare system driven by electronic health records and a national health information exchange. Even though 82 community ...

American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) President Bonnie Cassidy recently announced that the organization is working proactively to grow jobs for members while helping to fill the estimated 50,000 new positions that will be needed to implement the U.S. health system's transition to electronic health records (EHR). AHIMA ...

(Editor's note: This guest blog was written by Scott Warner, MLT(ASCP), a laboratory manager in northern Maine.) When a new manager is hired, grumbling ensues. ''Now we have to break in another one!'' Your new boss is worried about motivating you and your coworkers, but the opposite is also true. How do you get a stranger to do things your way? ...