Sec. 7. Workforce Retraining Grants
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The National Coordinator for Health Information Technology may award to eligible entities grants to be used for training health care workers in health information technology (in this section referred to as HIT ). The period of a grant under this section shall be 24 months. In this section, eligible entities means entities that provide clinical health care services to individuals within the United States. As a condition on receipt of a grant under this section, a grantee shall ensure that each employee whose HIT training is funded by that grant assumes expanded duties with the grantee, either in the form of a new employment position or revised duties within such employee’s existing employment position, that requires the use of HIT, not more than 1 year after the employee completes the training.
Each grantee shall submit a report not later than 24 months after receipt of a grant to the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology including the following: The number of employees who received training pursuant to the grant. The HIT skills covered during such training or trainings. Documentation that each trained employee commenced or will commence work in a new position that satisfies the condition set forth in subsection (d). There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $10,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2015 through 2019.