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Each year HAHIMA awards scholarships to students pursuing a degree in HIM.
Click here for 2012 Scholarship application. To qualify for the scholarship,
students must:
Click here for 2012 Scholarship application. To qualify for the scholarship,
students must:
- Be enrolled as a second year student in an accredited RHIT or RHIA
program within District 9, or an accredited distance education RHIA/RHIT
program (must reside in District 9), or an accredited distance education
RHIA progression program (must reside in District 9); - Have completed at least 9 hours of major coursework in the HIM program;
- Have a GPA of at least 2.4 or higher; and
- Be a member of HAHIMA.
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Community College Consortia to Educate Health Information
Houston Community College- Coleman College for Health Sciences is offering a
non-degree Health Information Technology Training Program to prepare the
Electronic Health Record workforce. This 6-month program is designed to
provide a pool of qualified workers to implement and maintain electronic
medical records. Students must have either a medical or information
technology background. Job Placement Assistance available. For 10 courses
students pay $25 per class with 100% tuition reimbursed if completed within 6
months. Information Sessions scheduled 5:30pm the second Monday
of every month at the Coleman Campus, 1900 Pressler in the Texas Medical
Center. October 3, 2011 is the last class to be accepted prior to the end of
the grant in March of 2012. For more information, and to apply, visit Houston
Community College – Coleman (serving south Texas) at
coleman.hccs.edu/hitech, call (713) 718-8959 or email hitech@hccs.edu.
PURE HIT - Program of Assistance for University-Based Training
The Professional University Resources and Education for Health Information
Technology (PURE HIT) is a consortium project supported by a grant from the
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the National
Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC). PURE HIT is recruiting
students to participate in HIT certificate programs and a master's program in
electronic health record (EHR) /health information exchange (HIE)
Implementation. The PURE HIT consortium is led by Texas State University in
collaboration with The University of Texas College of Natural Sciences in Austin
and The University of Texas Health School of Biomedical Informatics at Houston.
Visit Texas State University at http://pure-hit.health.txstate.edu/
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of
Biomedical Informatics has opened the Master of Science in Applied Health
Informatics (Pending Approval). The Office of the National Coordinator for
Health Information Technology (ONC) will fund up to 29 full-time students for
the one-year duration of the Master of Science in Applied Health Informatics
program. For selected full-time (9 hrs/semester) students, the ONC grant will
subsidize:
Houston Community College- Coleman College for Health Sciences is offering a
non-degree Health Information Technology Training Program to prepare the
Electronic Health Record workforce. This 6-month program is designed to
provide a pool of qualified workers to implement and maintain electronic
medical records. Students must have either a medical or information
technology background. Job Placement Assistance available. For 10 courses
students pay $25 per class with 100% tuition reimbursed if completed within 6
months. Information Sessions scheduled 5:30pm the second Monday
of every month at the Coleman Campus, 1900 Pressler in the Texas Medical
Center. October 3, 2011 is the last class to be accepted prior to the end of
the grant in March of 2012. For more information, and to apply, visit Houston
Community College – Coleman (serving south Texas) at
coleman.hccs.edu/hitech, call (713) 718-8959 or email hitech@hccs.edu.
PURE HIT - Program of Assistance for University-Based Training
The Professional University Resources and Education for Health Information
Technology (PURE HIT) is a consortium project supported by a grant from the
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the National
Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC). PURE HIT is recruiting
students to participate in HIT certificate programs and a master's program in
electronic health record (EHR) /health information exchange (HIE)
Implementation. The PURE HIT consortium is led by Texas State University in
collaboration with The University of Texas College of Natural Sciences in Austin
and The University of Texas Health School of Biomedical Informatics at Houston.
Visit Texas State University at http://pure-hit.health.txstate.edu/
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of
Biomedical Informatics has opened the Master of Science in Applied Health
Informatics (Pending Approval). The Office of the National Coordinator for
Health Information Technology (ONC) will fund up to 29 full-time students for
the one-year duration of the Master of Science in Applied Health Informatics
program. For selected full-time (9 hrs/semester) students, the ONC grant will
subsidize:
- 60% of tuition and fees
- A $15,000 stipend
- Free student health insurance for the duration of the program
| Scholarship recipient for 2011 was Eileen Terrell Scholarship recipients for 2010 were: Alex Amie Jennifer Dawson Bernadette Flaming Amona Joke |
