MSPU launches Healthcare IT University

Managed Services Provider University (MSPU), the largest consultancy and online resource dedicated to business transformation and improvement strategies for information technology (IT) professionals and managed services providers worldwide, announced today the launch of Healthcare IT University - a new Healthcare IT-focused website at www.hitu.us, and the concurrent release of its inaugural 2-volume publication titled The Guide to a Successful Healthcare IT Practice.

Healthcare IT University is designed to provide IT professionals and organizations the resources, education and training necessary to build a profitable Healthcare IT Practice to successfully deliver solutions to the Healthcare vertical, and will feature educational webcasts, forms, tools and collateral developed and delivered by Healthcare industry experts, thought leaders, manufacturers, vendors and Healthcare IT providers.

Healthcare IT University's first deliverable is a 2-volume publication titled The Guide to a Successful Healthcare IT Practice and covers best practices for 8 critical areas of Healthcare IT Practice success, along with everything a provider needs to know about the HITECH and ARRA Acts, Meaningful Use, Electronic Medical Records (EMR), Electronic Health Records (EHR), Practice Management Systems (PMS), Patient Portals, E-Prescribing, Healthcare Information Exchange (HIE), Health Level 7 (HL7) and the Health Information Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). In addition, this comprehensive resource covers related topics such as Healthcare Associations and Government Agencies, Vendors, Medical Practice Needs, Specialties, Terminology, Workflows and Laws and Positioning, Marketing and Selling Healthcare IT Solutions and growing a profitable Healthcare IT Practice.

"The creation of our new Healthcare IT University site; while still very much in its infancy, has been driven by the needs of the channel, and developing it and delivering our newest publication; The Guide to a Successful Healthcare IT Practice, is our response to meeting these needs," said Erick Simpson, Vice President of MSP University. "Our roadmap for Healthcare IT University supports our vision to create the largest Healthcare IT business improvement and transformation resource available, and assist providers in building successful, profitable Healthcare IT Practices."

The timeliness of these resources allows IT providers to leverage them to position themselves to take advantage of the more than $20 billion in Healthcare industry IT investment funds made available through the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) and American Recovery and Reinvestment (ARRA) Acts in the US.