Paper Info
Title
Setting priorities for EU healthcare workforce IT skills competence improvement.
Abstract
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.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1177/1460458217704257
HEALTH INFORMATICS JOURNAL
Keywords
Field
DocType
Child Health and Nutrition Research Initiative,healthcare workforce,IT skills competence,priority-setting,ehealth
Health care,Nursing,Workforce,Knowledge management,Curriculum,eHealth,Workforce planning,Medicine,Quality management
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
25.0
1.0
1460-4582
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.43
2
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sisi Li1608.22
Panagiotis D. Bamidis241974.89
Stathis Th. Konstantinidis3268.16
Vicente Traver46416.61
J Car582.45
Nabil Zary61911.98