Q&A: An ONC HIT Workforce Development Program Success Story

Robert Reedy was bored by his IT job.

After 17 years encompassing various straight IT roles, spanning break-fix to networking, he needed a change. Reedy considered going back to school for nursing, until he found about ONC’s HIT Workforce Development Program, that is.

Reedy, having since graduated from Sinclair Community College’s program in Dayton, OH receives a near-weekly stream of lucrative offers to work as a consultant on EHR implementations. 

Government Health IT Editor Tom Sullivan spoke with Reedy about why he wanted to enter the HIT field, the most significant takeaways from ONC’s program, the differences between working in IT for a healthcare organization versus other fields, and ways he think the program could be improved in the future.