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.

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.

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 Setting priorities for EU healthcare workforce IT skills competence improvement

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 174-185 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sisi Li ◽  
Panagiotis D Bamidis ◽  
Stathis Th Konstantinidis ◽  
Vicente Traver ◽  
Josip Car ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Improvement ◽  
Child Health ◽  
Healthcare Quality ◽  
Health And Nutrition ◽  
Research Priority ◽  
Healthcare Workforce ◽  
Nutrition Research ◽  
Research Initiative ◽  
It Skills ◽  
The Eu

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.

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 A Transatlantic Secular Divide? The Representation of Religion in EU and US Foreign Policy

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 451-469 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Jenichen
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Us Foreign Policy ◽  
Foreign Affairs ◽  
Policy Documents ◽  
Foreign Policies ◽  
Eu And Us ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
The Eu

AbstractIt is a common—often stereotypical—presumption that Europe is secular and America religious. Differences in international religious freedom and religious engagement policies on both sides of the Atlantic seem to confirm this “cliché.” This article argues that to understand why it has been easier for American supporters to institutionalize these policies than for advocates in the EU, it is important to consider the discursive structures of EU and US foreign policies, which enable and constrain political language and behavior. Based on the analysis of foreign policy documents, produced by the EU and the United States in their relationship with six religiously diverse African and Asian states, the article compares how both international actors represent religion in their foreign affairs. The analysis reveals similarities in the relatively low importance that they attribute to religion and major differences in how they represent the contribution of religion to creating and solving problems in other states. In sum, the foreign policies of both international actors are based on a secular discursive structure, but that of the United States is much more accommodative toward religion, including Islam, than that of the EU.

New Scientific Information Can Help to Inform the Evaluation of EU Deep-sea Fisheries Regulations

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Phillip J Turner ◽  
Matthew Gianni ◽  
Ellen Kenchington ◽  
Sebastian Valanko ◽  
David E Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Deep Sea ◽  
Scientific Information ◽  
Fish Population ◽  
Molecular Techniques ◽  
Fish Stocks ◽  
Horizon 2020 ◽  
Management Measures ◽  
Sea Fish ◽  
The Eu ◽  
Fish Population Structure

Abstract The European Union’s deep-sea fisheries regulations (Regulation (EU) No. 2016/2336) established obligations to manage deep-sea fisheries and to protect vulnerable marine ecosystems (VMEs). The European Commission is scheduled to complete a review of the regulations in 2021, providing an opportunity for new scientific information to be incorporated into the implementation of the regulations. Here, we summarise research outputs from the EU-funded Horizon 2020 ATLAS Project and explain their relevance to the regulation of deep-sea fisheries in EU waters. ATLAS research has increased our understanding of the distribution of VMEs and their importance in terms of ecosystem functioning. ATLAS research has also highlighted the utility of molecular techniques to understand fish population structure and the potential for habitat suitability models to help incorporate climate change into decision-making. Building on these scientific advances, we provide recommendations to help increase the effectiveness of management measures to conserve deep-sea fish stocks and protect VMEs.

scholarly journals The Influence of the European H2020 Program on the Development of Regions: The Multiplier Impact of EU Funding in the Regions under Horizon 2020 in NUT III - North

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 853-871
Author(s):  
Natacha Jesus Silva ◽  
Diamantino Ribeiro
Keyword(s):  
Regional Economy ◽  
Community Support ◽  
Northern Region ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Final Phase ◽  
Investment Funds ◽  
Horizon 2020 ◽  
Regional Investment ◽  
Partnership Agreement ◽  
The Eu

The partnership agreement between the European Union and the Member States for the implementation of the European Structural and Investment Funds for the period 2014 to 2020 is in its final phase. This study analyzes the multiplier impact on regional investment of the European funds made available to the northern region of Portugal - NUTS III, until September 2018 and intends to answer the following questions: What is the amount invested in the regional economy for each euro of support allocated by the EU through the H2020 program, and what is the percentage distribution of community support versus investment per area of intervention?

scholarly journals Political Framework of Green New Deal: A comparative analysis of the EU and US proposals

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 221-246
Author(s):  
Taedong Lee ◽  
Myungsung Kim ◽  
Natalie Chifamba
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
New Deal ◽  
Eu And Us ◽  
The Eu
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