The Iowa Health Professions Tracking Center
The Iowa Health Professions Tracking Center, operated by OSCEP, maintains continuous inventories of Iowa's major health professions:
- physicians
- pharmacists
- dentists
- physician assistants
- advanced practice nurses
Established in 1977, the Iowa Physician Information System served as the model for the creation of the other health professions tracking systems. In 1994, the Iowa General Assembly approved the Primary Care Initiative, a state supported program designed to augment the state’s efforts to produce primary care doctors. In FY 1995, the Primary Care Initiative was expanded and part of the funds were designated for the purpose of establishing and operating the Iowa Health Professions Inventory, a database for continuous tracking of Iowa’s health professions workforce.
Theresa Dunkin
Division Director
The Iowa Health Professions Inventory (IHPI)
The Iowa Health Professions Inventory, contains demographic, educational, and professional information for over 11, 000 actively practicing Iowa health care providers. The inventory characterizes the health care workforce (e.g., age, gender, and worksite), monitors trends, and facilitates research on the state’s health care workforce. Its benchmarking capacity enables users to track changes in supply and geographic distribution over time. The tracking system is monitored and updated on a continuous basis, incorporating changes in the workforce due to deaths, retirements, relocations, and new practitioners entering practice.
IHPI enables users to chart specific trends, forecast changes in the state’s health professions workforce, characterize the workforce demographically, and gauge the return on the state’s investments in health professions education.
Advisory committees for pharmacists, dentists, advanced practice nurses and physician assistants were established to guide development of their respective health professions tracking system. The advisory committees were essential to the initial design and development of the tracking systems. They continue to play an important role in reviewing the data and supporting the user guidelines and policies.
Iowa Tracking System Advisory Committee Members
Advanced Practice Nurse Tracking System
Judith Collins, MA, ARNP
Chair, Public Policy Committee
Iowa Nurses Association
Jay Iverson, CAE, IOM
Executive Director
Iowa Nurses Association
Brenda Hoskins, DNP, MSN, ARNP, GNP-BC
Iowa Nurse Practitioner Society
Diane Hubner, PhD, RN, FAAN, NEA-BC
Professor
University of Iowa College of Nursing
Lorinda Inman, RN, MSN
Executive Director
Iowa Board of Nursing
Kendra Williams-Perez, EdD, RN, CNE
Professor and Dean, Allen College of Nursing
Iowa Association of Colleges of Nursing
Dentist Tracking System
Galen Schneider, DDS
Executive Associate Dean
University of Iowa College of Dentistry
David Johnsen, DDS
Dean
University of Iowa College of Dentistry
Raymond Kuthy, DDS, MPH
Professor, Preventive and Community Dentistry
University of Iowa College of Dentistry
Phil McCollum
Health Professions Investigator
Iowa Board of Dental Examiners
Perry Grimes, DDS
Member
Iowa Dental Association
Advisory Committee Meeting Booklets
Each year OSCEP reports to each respective Iowa Tracking System Advisory Committee benchmarks, geographic distributions, access summaries, trends and comparisons.
2011 Iowa Advanced Practice Nurse Tracking System Annual Report
2011 Iowa Dentist Tracking System Annual Report