scholarly journals Prioritization of potential policy actions to develop IT skills among healthcare workforce

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sisi Li ◽  
Panagiotis D Bamidis ◽  
Stathis Konstantinidis ◽  
Vicente Traver ◽  
Nabil Zary
Keyword(s):  
Health Workforce ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Continuous Training ◽  
Related Information ◽  
Healthcare Workforce ◽  
Effective Care ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
It Skills ◽  
The Eu

Background: Health related information and communication technology is globally an important and growing sector. With the promise of more efficient and cost-effective care, eHealth is becoming a key priority to address the current challenges faced by health systems worldwide. Addressing IT skills for healthcare workforce is seen as an important element of achieving greater social inclusion.Objective: To identify the needs in the eHealth field across the EU health workforce and actions to improve the IT skills of healthcare professionals. In addition, to identify priorities among the identified actions. Methods: A diverse group of technical experts, representing different fields of expertise in healthcare and geographical locations across EU participated in the study. A scientific priority-setting methodology was used to systematically list and score actions that would improve IT skills among healthcare workforce. The participants evaluated the actions using several criteria: feasibility, effectiveness, deliverability, and maximum impact on IT skills improvement.Results: The actions that scored highest were related to appropriate training, integrating eHealth in curriculum, involving health workforce in the eHealth solution development, improving awareness of eHealth as well as learning arrangement. The actions that scored lowest related to the workforce management, identification of IT skills needed, joint funding for training program and training on potential workforce. Conclusion: To maintain a highly IT skilled health workforce, eHealth related knowledge and skills in current curricula, improving awareness of eHealth and continuous training according to the different professionals’ needs should be addressed. In addition, health professionals should be actively and continuously included in the development of eHealth solutions.

scholarly journals Prioritization of actions needed to develop IT skills among healthcare workforce

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sisi Li ◽  
Panagiotis D Bamidis ◽  
Stathis Konstantinidis ◽  
Vicente Traver ◽  
Nabil Zary
Keyword(s):  
Health Workforce ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Continuous Training ◽  
Related Information ◽  
Healthcare Workforce ◽  
Effective Care ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
It Skills ◽  
The Eu

Background: Health related information and communication technology is globally an important and growing sector. With the promise of more efficient and cost-effective care, eHealth is becoming a key priority to address the current challenges faced by health systems worldwide. Addressing IT skills for healthcare workforce is seen as an important element of achieving greater social inclusion.Objective: To identify the actions needed to improve the IT skills of healthcare workforce across the EU. In addition, to identify priorities among the identified actions with collaboration of healthcare experts. Methods: A diverse group of technical experts, representing different fields of expertise in healthcare and geographical locations participated in the study. A scientific priority-setting methodology was used to systematically list and score actions that would improve IT skills among healthcare workforce. The participants evaluated the actions using several criteria: feasibility, effectiveness, deliverability, and maximum impact on IT skills improvement.Results: The actions that scored highest were related to appropriate training, integrating eHealth in curriculum, involving health workforce in the eHealth solution development, improving awareness of eHealth as well as learning arrangement. The actions that scored lowest related to the workforce management, identification of IT skills needed, joint funding for training program and training on potential workforce. Conclusion: To maintain a highly IT skilled health workforce, eHealth related knowledge and skills in current curricula, improving awareness of eHealth and continuous training according to the different professionals’ needs should be addressed. In addition, health professionals should be actively and continuously included in the development of eHealth solutions.

scholarly journals Prioritization of actions needed to develop IT skills among healthcare workforce

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sisi Li ◽  
Panagiotis D Bamidis ◽  
Stathis Konstantinidis ◽  
Vicente Traver ◽  
Nabil Zary
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Continuous Training ◽  
Health Care Workforce ◽  
Related Information ◽  
Healthcare Workforce ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
It Skills

Background: Health related information and communication technology is globally an important and growing sector. With the promise of more efficient and cost-effective care, eHealth is becoming a key priority to address the current challenges faced by health systems worldwide. Addressing IT skills for health care workforce is seen as an important element of achieving greater social inclusion. Objective: To identify and prioritize the actions needed to improve the IT skills of health care workforce across the EU from different perspectives of experts in health care. Methods: A diverse group of experts, representing different fields of expertise in health care and geographical locations participated in the study. A scientific priority-setting methodology was used to systematically list and score actions that would improve IT skills among health care workforce. The participants evaluated the actions using several criteria: feasibility, effectiveness, deliverability, and maximum impact on IT skills improvement. Results: The actions that scored highest were related to appropriate training, integrating eHealth in curriculum, involving health care workforce in the eHealth solution development, improving awareness of eHealth as well as learning arrangement. The actions that scored lowest were related to the workforce management, identification of IT skills competences needed, joint funding for training program and training on potential workforce. Conclusion: To maintain highly IT skilled health care workforce, eHealth related knowledge and skills in current curricula, improving awareness of eHealth and continuous training according to the different professionals’ needs should be addressed. In addition, healthcare workforce should be actively and continuously included in the development of eHealth solutions.

scholarly journals Prioritization of actions needed to develop IT skills among healthcare workforce

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sisi Li ◽  
Panagiotis D Bamidis ◽  
Stathis Konstantinidis ◽  
Vicente Traver ◽  
Nabil Zary
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Continuous Training ◽  
Health Care Workforce ◽  
Related Information ◽  
Healthcare Workforce ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
It Skills

Background: Health related information and communication technology is globally an important and growing sector. With the promise of more efficient and cost-effective care, eHealth is becoming a key priority to address the current challenges faced by health systems worldwide. Addressing IT skills for health care workforce is seen as an important element of achieving greater social inclusion. Objective: To identify and prioritize the actions needed to improve the IT skills of health care workforce across the EU from different perspectives of experts in health care. Methods: A diverse group of experts, representing different fields of expertise in health care and geographical locations participated in the study. A scientific priority-setting methodology was used to systematically list and score actions that would improve IT skills among health care workforce. The participants evaluated the actions using several criteria: feasibility, effectiveness, deliverability, and maximum impact on IT skills improvement. Results: The actions that scored highest were related to appropriate training, integrating eHealth in curriculum, involving health care workforce in the eHealth solution development, improving awareness of eHealth as well as learning arrangement. The actions that scored lowest were related to the workforce management, identification of IT skills competences needed, joint funding for training program and training on potential workforce. Conclusion: To maintain highly IT skilled health care workforce, eHealth related knowledge and skills in current curricula, improving awareness of eHealth and continuous training according to the different professionals’ needs should be addressed. In addition, healthcare workforce should be actively and continuously included in the development of eHealth solutions.

Closing the Gap

2010 ◽  
pp. 38-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Malina Jordanova
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
World Health ◽  
World Health Assembly Resolution ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The Cost

Brought to life by contemporary changes of our world, e-health offers enormous possibilities. In the World Health Organization’s World Health Assembly resolution on e-health, WHO has defined e-health as the cost-effective and secure use of information and communication technologies in support of health and health-related fields, including healthcare services, health surveillance, health literature, and health education (WHO, 2005). It is impossible to have a detailed view of its potential as e-health affects the entire health sector and is a viable tool to provide routine, as well as specialized, health services. It is able to improve both the access to, and the standard of, health care. The aim of the chapter is to focus on how e-health can help in closing one gap - optimizing patient care. The examples included and references provided are ready to be introduced in practice immediately. Special attention is dedicated to cost effectiveness of e-health applications.

scholarly journals Sharing Healthcare Records in the Cloud Using Attribute-Based Encryption and De-Duplication

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (VII) ◽  
pp. 3345-3350
Author(s):  
Rushikesh Umak
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Healthcare System ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Security And Privacy ◽  
Medical Opinion ◽  
Health Related ◽  
The Face ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
High Level ◽  
Effective Use

Cloud based healthcare computing have changed the face of healthcare in many ways. The main advantages of cloud computing in healthcare are scalability of the required service and the provision to upscale or downsize the data storge, collaborating Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning. The current paper examined various research studies to explore the utilization of intelligent techniques in health systems and mainly focused into the security and privacy issues in the current technologies. E-Healthcare is an emerging field of medical informatics, referring to the delivery of health services and information using the Internet and related technologies. Rendering efficient storage and security for all data is very important for cloud computing. Securing and privacy preserving of data is of high priority when it comes to cloud storage. E-Healthcare is the most important source in the healthcare society. E-healthcare system is now being popularized globally. Implementing the E-healthcare system will have more advantages such as online services for teleconsultation (second medical opinion), e-prescription, e-referral, telemonitoring, telecare etc. E-healthcare system provides high level of security and cost-effective use of patients records, information and communication in support of healthcare and health related issues.

scholarly journals Education of IT skills for the healthcare workforce in EU-US: Analysis of opportunities

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vicente Traver ◽  
Stathis Konstantinidis ◽  
Panagiotis Bamidis ◽  
Nabil Zary
Keyword(s):  
Health Knowledge ◽  
Educational Material ◽  
Health Science ◽  
Knowledge Generation ◽  
Ict Skills ◽  
Horizon 2020 ◽  
Healthcare Workforce ◽  
Eu And Us ◽  
It Skills ◽  
The Eu

Physicians, nurses and other professionals interact with patients every day, and ICT, especially the internet, can enhance the communication processes among them, providing timely information to patients about disease prevention, health promotion, as well as treatment of diseases. ICT skills are: access to health science information, management of health information and knowledge, generation and dissemination of health knowledge. The development of these new ICT skills requires digital literate people. Funded by the CAMEI EC funded project, a whitepaper has been produced, identifying some key recommendations about how USA organisations and communities can cooperate with EU organisations in order to empower sharing, reuse, repurposing and creation of educational material applied in different context and promote renewal of programmes. After the analysis of opportunities about education of IT skills for the healthcare workforce in EU-US, authors conclude that: - Common challenges and opportunities on providing IT skills for healthcare workforce have been identified, assessing the cooperation potential among the EU and the US. - A benchmark in detail policy priorities of US on IT skills for Healthcare workforce and research sub-areas with those of EU (i2010, FP7-ICT strategic priorities, Horizon 2020) has been performed to help partners from the other side to be involved in joint related activities. - Open Education and the creation of some educational frameworks have been identified as the means and the guidelines of sharing, re-using, and repurposing technologies of new educational material and programs for IT-skilled workforce in healthcare applied in the different context, different languages and cultures in the EU and US. - A prominent base of cooperation where mutual benefits can be generated for both regions has been located, identifying key players from the EU and US.

eHealth Systems, Their Use and Visions for the Future

2009 ◽  
pp. 346-353
Author(s):  
Pirkko Nykänen
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Related Information ◽  
The Future ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Physician Patient

eHealth refers to use of information and communication technologies to improve or enable health and healthcare. eHealth broadens the scope of health care delivery, citizens are in the center of services and services are offered by information systems often via the Internet. In this chapter eHealth systems are classified on the basis of their use and their functionality and the use is discussed from the viewpoints of citizens and health professionals. Citizens are increasingly using Internet and eHealth systems to search for medicine or health related information, and they become better informed and may take more responsibility of their own health. Health professionals are more reluctant to use the Internet and eHealth systems in physician-patient communication due to power and responsibility problems of decisions. In the future the socio-technical nature of eHealth should be considered and future systems developed for real use and user environment with user acceptable technology.

The Collaborative Use of Patients' Health-Related Information

2018 ◽  
pp. 245-271
Author(s):  
Fadi Alhaddadin ◽  
Jairo A. Gutiérrez ◽  
William Liu
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Quality Of Healthcare ◽  
Healthcare Systems ◽  
Health Conditions ◽  
Healthcare Information ◽  
Open Environment ◽  
Related Information ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Information And Communication

The advancement in the field of information and communication technology has generated a great deal of information that was not possible to access earlier. Healthcare systems are one of the most beneficial applications using wireless medical sensor technologies, which can facilitate patient care within homes, hospitals, clinics, disaster sites, and the open environment. The integration and sharing of such information can contribute significantly to a better understanding of patients' health conditions and therefore to improving the quality of healthcare provided to them. However, in order to achieve sufficient levels of collaborative use of information among healthcare-related practitioners, there is a need to overcome a number of issues such as privacy and interoperability, among others. This chapter discusses two of the main challenges encountered before healthcare information systems can collaboratively share patients' records, namely privacy and interoperability.

E-Health Systems

2011 ◽  
pp. 281-293 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pirkko Nykanen
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Health Systems ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Healthcare Delivery ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Related Information ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Physician Patient

E-health refers to use of information and communication technologies to improve or enable health and healthcare. E-health broadens the scope of healthcare delivery; citizens are in the center of services and services are offered by information systems often via the Internet. In this chapter e-health systems are classified on the basis of their use and their functionality and the use is discussed from the viewpoints of citizens and health professionals. Citizens are increasingly using Internet and e-health systems to search for medicine or health-related information, and they become better informed and may take more responsibility of their own health. Health professionals are more reluctant to use the Internet and e-health systems in physician-patient communication due to the power and responsibility problems of decisions. In the future the sociotechnical nature of e-health should be considered and future systems developed for real use and user environment with user acceptable technology.

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