With healthcare organizations required to meet compliance standards and use specialized systems offered by software vendors, healthcare is becoming increasingly beholden to IT providers. In order to meet these demands, they require people with the talent to handle these tools, but rarely have the budget to attract or retain them. Is there a staffing crisis in healthcare IT? How will this knowledge be developed and retained internally? Considering the investment challenges and the equal shortage of clinicians from other parts of the organization, how do we work to solving this staffing shortage?