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- Title
Setting priorities for EU healthcare workforce IT skills competence improvement.
- Authors
Li, Sisi; Bamidis, Panagiotis D.; Konstantinidis, Stathis Th; Traver, Vicente; Car, Josip; Zary, Nabil
- Abstract
A major challenge for healthcare quality improvement is the lack of IT skills and knowledge of healthcare workforce, as well as their ambivalent attitudes toward IT. This article identifies and prioritizes actions needed to improve the IT skills of healthcare workforce across the EU. A total of 46 experts, representing different fields of expertise in healthcare and geolocations, systematically listed and scored actions that would improve IT skills among healthcare workforce. The Child Health and Nutrition Research Initiative methodology was used for research priority-setting. The participants evaluated the actions using the following criteria: feasibility, effectiveness, deliverability, and maximum impact on IT skills improvement. The leading priority actions were related to appropriate training, integrating eHealth in curricula, involving healthcare workforce in the eHealth solution development, improving awareness of eHealth, and learning arrangement. As the different professionals' needs are prioritized, healthcare workforce should be actively and continuously included in the development of eHealth solutions.
- Subjects
GREECE; MEDICAL education; ABILITY; CHILDREN'S health; CHILD nutrition; CLINICAL medicine; CURRICULUM; INFORMATION technology; LABOR supply; RESEARCH methodology; MEDICAL informatics; PRIORITY (Philosophy); RESEARCH evaluation; RESEARCH funding; SCHOOL environment; SURVEYS; TELEMEDICINE; TRAINING; JOB performance; EUROPEAN Union
- Publication
Health Informatics Journal, 2019, Vol 25, Issue 1, p174
- ISSN
1460-4582
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/1460458217704257