Interactive Web PlatformEU*US eHealth Work Project
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“The EU*US eHealth Work Project builds on a foundation of work done in eHealth workforce development and digital skills enhancement, expands on innovation and practical tool and resource development, integrates healthcare clinicians, academia and global associations, and includes a large and growing stakeholder community” — Rachelle Blake, Project Coordinator
“In the future we stress the need to create a model for a cooperation between health care and welfare regions and national ICT operators. Decisions on the strategic goals are needed to accelerate a development of informatics competencies in the curricula.” — EU*US eHealth Work Finland Engagement Event Panelists: Dr. Elina Kontio, Turku University of Applied Sciences, Dr. Sari Palojoki, University of Eastern Finland, Dr. Elina Rajalahti, Laurea University of Applied Sciences & Dr. Kaija Saranto, University of Eastern Finland
“While technology's important, people are even more so.” —Miguel Gonzãlez-Sancho, Head of eHealth Unit, DG Connect @ EHTEL Symposium 2017
“If you have standards included in the [clinical] accreditation, academic organizations will include it and the faculty will have to move that wheel.” —Marisa Wilson, Associate Professor, University of Alabama at Birmingham, US @ EU*US eHealth Work Final Conference
EU*US eHealth Work ProjectMeasuring, Informing, Educating and Advancing
Measure
Executing the tasks of mesaurement through an overall goal of mapping, quantifying and projecting the need, supply and demand for workforce skills and competencies: survey and gap analysis
Inform
Informing new and incumbent eHealth workforce members, pertinent actors, stakeholders and others in the health information and technology field regarding the resuts of our measuresments: newsletters, website, dissemination events
Educate
Educating by utilizing results to build a set of foundational curricula, enhancing the HITComp Tool and Repository, and building an interactive web platform usable by students, new and imcumbent healthcare workers and others: Foundational Curricula and HITComp, Skills and Knowledge Assessment and Development Framework
Advance
Advancing the field of eHealth/health IT and further enhancing workforce building initiatives by disseminating and exploiting the work generated under this project, utilising our network of networks: dissemination events, IWP, interactive educator modules
Digital Skills
Why is eHealth Workforce Development Important?
Healthcare systems require a robust supply of both highly proficient eHealth/health IT professionals as well as an overall workforce that has a sufficient level of digital skills to make the optimum use of eHealth tools and resources. However, there remains a global shortage, especially in the European Union, of eHealth workers across the full spectrum of job roles, spanning clinical care, social care, informatics and administration. There is also a dearth of structured eHealth education and training opportunities. This project has worked to overcome some of these gaps and help work toward development of a more robust eHealth workforce.
Explore
Join us and become an active stakeholder today! Our stakeholders include members from our consortium and partner organizations, as well as large global eHealth community of interdisciplinary heatlhcare professionals, academics and educators, students, partners from the public and private HIT sector, vendors, and other interested parties
Want to Evaluate Your Skill Level?
Try our Skills and Knowledge Assessment and Development Framework
The SKAD is a self-assessment questionnaire that helps students or current eHealth workers assess their digital literacy skills
SKAD is a great starting point for our Foundational Curriculum and other tools and resources, such as HITComp, ESCO (European Skills, Competences, qualifications and Occupations) and the HIMSS TIGER Virtual Learning Environment