Abstract
Owing to technological advances, health care providers have found it imperative to adopt an also use electronic health records to aid in the documentation of relevant data in its quest to facilitate the provision of better, efficient and less costly health care. The effective implementation of this process cannot be met without an adequate Health Information Technology workforce. Extant literature and research on the subject has tended to focus on the staffing ratios, job roles, leadership and educational qualifications, competencies as well as gap and growth whilst ignoring other salient parameters necessary in building the appropriate human capacity.
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