Setting priorities for EU healthcare workforce IT skills competence improvement

Li, Sisi; Bamidis, Panagiotis; Konstantinidis, Stathis Th; Traver, Vicente; Car, Josip; Zary, Nabil

Abstract

© The Author(s) 2017. 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.

Citation

Li, S., Bamidis, P., Konstantinidis, S. T., Traver, V., Car, J., & Zary, N. (2019). Setting priorities for EU healthcare workforce IT skills competence improvement. Health Informatics Journal, 25(1), 174-185. https://doi.org/10.1177/1460458217704257

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Nov 12, 2016
• Online Publication Date: Apr 25, 2017
• Publication Date: Mar 1, 2019
• Deposit Date: Feb 13, 2017
• Publicly Available Date: Apr 25, 2017
• Journal: Health Informatics Journal
• Print ISSN: 1460-4582
• Electronic ISSN: 1741-2811
• Publisher: SAGE Publications
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 25
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 174-185
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1460458217704257
• Keywords: Healthcare workforce, Priority setting, IT skills competence, CHNRI
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/857493
• Publisher URL: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1460458217704257
• Contract Date: Feb 13, 2017