Citing the need for 50,000 new health care information technology jobs during the next five years–just to achieve meaningful use of electronic health records–the federal government in 2010 awarded $84 million in stimulus-funded grants to create intensive health I.T. curricula lasting six months or less in community colleges and 12 months or less at four-year universities.

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