Texas State University-San Marcos projects a shortage of 10,000 health IT workers by 2013 2013 to meet its goal of implementing and effectively using electronic health records (EHRs) —in that state alone! Could Texas find that many interested workers? Sure, but they’ll likely need to take a combined approach to filling those positions; training in-state candidates and recruiting skilled professionals on a national level. There’s no cheap solution to resolving the shortage of IT professionals.