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.

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 THE ROLE OF HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEM IN MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTHCARE SERVICES

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 29
Author(s):  
Rakhi Chowdhury ◽  
Leena Kumari ◽  
Subhamay Panda
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Information System ◽  
Child Health ◽  
Health Information ◽  
Maternal And Child Health ◽  
Health Information System ◽  
Health Care Sector ◽  
Related Information ◽  
Health Related ◽  
And Child Health

Health information system deals with any system that helps in capturing, storing, transmitting, and managing health-related information of an individual or to demonstrate the activities or organizations working within health-care sector. In the developing countries, maternal and child health is gaining concern due to increasing cases of morbidity and mortality. The disparities among the maternal, infant, and child health are a growing concern in India and are governed by various determinants such as socioeconomic status, literacy, quality of health care, discrimination, and biological and genetic factors. Accurate and reliable health information and data are the basis for decision-making across the health-care sector and are crucial for the development and implementation of health system policy by the policy-makers. Strict monitoring and evaluation of the present program design and its implementation is required at the microlevel to effectively utilize the resources for the improvement of maternal and child health. Our present article focuses on evaluating the coverage gap at the different levels for the provision of health-care facilities to maternal, neonatal, and child health, immunization, and treatment of poor children. Big data plays a major role in providing sound and reliable health-related information and also help in managing and recording structured and unstructured data. More concrete plans are required further to reduce the inequalities in health-care interventions for providing better maternal and child health-care services in our nation.

Lifetime Enhancement and Reliability in Wireless Body Area Network

2021 ◽  
pp. 88-101
Author(s):  
Saranya Vasanthamani ◽  
S. Shankar
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Health Care Service ◽  
Wireless Body Area Network ◽  
Body Area Network ◽  
Area Network ◽  
Body Area ◽  
Related Information ◽  
Critical Issues ◽  
Health Related

The wireless body area network (WBAN) consists of wearable or implantable sensor nodes, which is a technology that enables pervasive observing and delivery of health-related information and services. The network capability of body devices and integration with wireless infrastructure can result in pervasive environment deliver the information about the patients to health care service providers. WBAN has a major part in e-health observing system. Due to sensitivity and critical of the data carried and handled by WBAN, reliability becomes a critical issues. WBAN loads a high degree of reliability as it openly affects the quality of patient observing. A main requirement is that the health care professionals receive the monitored data correctly. Thus reliability can be measured to achieve reliable network are fault tolerance, QoS, and security. As WBAN is a special type of WSN. The objective is to achieve a reliable network with minimum delay and maximum throughput while considering power consumption by reducing unnecessary communication.

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 Perception of Patients on Usage of Smartphones by Health Care Professionals during Clinic Hours

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel O Bolarinde ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Providers ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Medical Information ◽  
Clinical Information ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Related Information ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Self Administered Questionnaire

Background of the study: Smartphones medically related applications are quickly becoming one of the main tools for accessing clinical information among health care professionals. Aim of Study: This study assessed the perception of patients on usage of smartphones by health care professionals during clinic hours. Methodology: The study recruited 185 patients. Data on demographic characteristics and perception of patients on the use of smartphones for medical information were obtained using a self-administered questionnaire. Data were summarized using a descriptive statistics and inferential statistics of Chi square. Alpha level was set at 0.005 Results: 76 Males, 109 Females participated in this study. 67.6% (125) own a smartphones. 34.6% (64) have seen health care professionals using smartphones during clinic hours, 28.1% (18) had their health care providers explain to them reasons for using smartphone. 34.1% (63) agreed it was unprofessional for health care provider to use smartphone during clinic, 33.5% (62) disagreed, 32.4% (60) were undecided. No association observed between respondents’ age (χ2= 12.00, p= 0.606), educational qualification (χ2= 8.501, p= 0.075) and responses to the statement that use of smartphones by health care professional was unprofessional. Conclusion: Although one third of the respondents agreed that usage of smartphones by healthcare professionals in the clinic while attending to patients was unprofessional however, usage of smartphone for health related information by health care professionals during clinic hours should be with caution to avoid losing the confidence repose in them by their patients.

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 Health-Seeking Influence Reflected by Online Health-Related Messages Received on Social Media: Cross-Sectional Survey (Preprint)

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rahila Iftikhar ◽  
Bahaa Abaalkhail
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Heart Disease ◽  
Medical Information ◽  
Significant Proportion ◽  
Categorical Variables ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Related Information ◽  
Health Related

BACKGROUND Major social networking platforms, such as Facebook, WhatsApp, and Twitter, have become popular means through which people share health-related information, irrespective of whether messages disseminated through these channels are authentic. OBJECTIVE This study aims to describe the demographic characteristics of patients that may demonstrate their attitudes toward medical information shared on social media networks. Second, we address how information found through social media affects the way people deal with their health. Third, we examine whether patients initiate or alter/discontinue their medications based on information derived from social media. METHODS We conducted a cross-sectional survey between April and June 2015 on patients attending outpatient clinics at King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Patients who used social media (Facebook, WhatsApp, and Twitter) were included. We designed a questionnaire with closed-ended and multiple-choice questions to assess the type of social media platforms patients used and whether information received on these platforms influenced their health care decisions. We used chi-square test to establish the relationship between categorical variables. RESULTS Of the 442 patients who filled in the questionnaires, 401 used Facebook, WhatsApp, or Twitter. The majority of respondents (89.8%, 397/442) used WhatsApp, followed by Facebook (58.6%, 259/442) and Twitter (42.3%, 187/442). In most cases, respondents received health-related messages from WhatsApp and approximately 42.6% (171/401) reported ever stopping treatment as advised on a social media platform. A significantly higher proportion of patients without heart disease (P=.001) and obese persons (P=.01) checked the authenticity of information received on social media. Social media messages influenced decision making among patients without heart disease (P=.04). Respondents without heart disease (P=.001) and obese persons (P=.01) were more likely to discuss health-related information received on social media channels with a health care professional. A significant proportion of WhatsApp users reported that health-related information received on this platform influenced decisions regarding their family’s health care (P=.001). Respondents’ decisions regarding family health care were more likely to be influenced when they used two or all three types of platforms (P=.003). CONCLUSIONS Health education in the digital era needs to be accurate, evidence-based, and regulated. As technologies continue to evolve, we must be equipped to face the challenges it brings with it.

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