Setting priorities for EU healthcare workforce IT skills competence improvement

A major challenge for healthcare quality improvement is the lack of IT skills and knowledge of healthcare workforce as well as their ambivalent attitudes towards IT. This paper identifies and prioritises actions needed to improve the IT skills of healthcare workforce across the EU. 46 experts, repre...

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Main Authors: Li, Sisi, Bamidis, Panagiotis, Konstantinidis, Stathis, Traver, Vicente, Car, Josip, Zary, Nabil
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author Li, Sisi
Bamidis, Panagiotis
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Car, Josip
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description A major challenge for healthcare quality improvement is the lack of IT skills and knowledge of healthcare workforce as well as their ambivalent attitudes towards IT. This paper identifies and prioritises actions needed to improve the IT skills of healthcare workforce across the EU. 46 experts, representing different fields of expertise in healthcare and geolocations systematically list 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 prioritised, healthcare workforce should be actively and continuously included in the development of eHealth solutions.
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spelling nottingham-405232020-05-04T18:43:08Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/40523/ Setting priorities for EU healthcare workforce IT skills competence improvement Li, Sisi Bamidis, Panagiotis Konstantinidis, Stathis Traver, Vicente Car, Josip Zary, Nabil A major challenge for healthcare quality improvement is the lack of IT skills and knowledge of healthcare workforce as well as their ambivalent attitudes towards IT. This paper identifies and prioritises actions needed to improve the IT skills of healthcare workforce across the EU. 46 experts, representing different fields of expertise in healthcare and geolocations systematically list 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 prioritised, healthcare workforce should be actively and continuously included in the development of eHealth solutions. SAGE Publications 2017-04-25 Article PeerReviewed Li, Sisi, Bamidis, Panagiotis, Konstantinidis, Stathis, Traver, Vicente, Car, Josip and Zary, Nabil (2017) Setting priorities for EU healthcare workforce IT skills competence improvement. Health Informatics Journal . ISSN 1741-2811 Healthcare workforce Priority setting IT skills competence CHNRI http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1460458217704257 doi:10.1177/1460458217704257 doi:10.1177/1460458217704257
spellingShingle Healthcare workforce
Priority setting
IT skills competence
CHNRI
Li, Sisi
Bamidis, Panagiotis
Konstantinidis, Stathis
Traver, Vicente
Car, Josip
Zary, Nabil
Setting priorities for EU healthcare workforce IT skills competence improvement
title Setting priorities for EU healthcare workforce IT skills competence improvement
title_full Setting priorities for EU healthcare workforce IT skills competence improvement
title_fullStr Setting priorities for EU healthcare workforce IT skills competence improvement
title_full_unstemmed Setting priorities for EU healthcare workforce IT skills competence improvement
title_short Setting priorities for EU healthcare workforce IT skills competence improvement
title_sort setting priorities for eu healthcare workforce it skills competence improvement
topic Healthcare workforce
Priority setting
IT skills competence
CHNRI
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