The Australian Digital Health Authority is working with the Digital Health Institute of Australia to build the capacity of the healthcare workforce in digital health.
The Agency has released its Capacity Action Plan, which outlines the priority actions needed to achieve this.
Over the next two years, organizations will engage healthcare workers working towards “standard competency frameworks, guidelines, resources and tools identified through prior work, planning and consultation”. industry continuously to equip Australia’s healthcare workforce for a connected, digitally-enabled future.”
WHY IT IMPORTANT
The ADHA launched the plan because it recognizes digital health as a way to address the growing challenges posed by an aging population, growing consumer demands, and pressures on the medical profession. economic.
It notes that a digitally capable health workforce will bring improved capabilities to diagnose, treat and manage health conditions; clinical risk reduction; and enhanced patient flow and information sharing throughout the health system, among other identified benefits.
To achieve these benefits, healthcare workers must develop the following skills:
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Confident use of technology;
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Apply data science, enabling evidence-based decision making and informed planning;
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The system supports workflow management and design and team collaboration;
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Improve information sharing, accessibility and security;
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Ability to create strong business cases and provide proof of benefit.
TREND TO BIGGER WOMAN
Late last year, AIDH released 4 years health force reform strategic plan. It aims to sustain the progress in digital health that has been made during the pandemic. The members of the organization have been pursuing recognition and training for their employees to build their competence in the field of digital health. Workers in the nursing and midwifery sectors have begun the process of upskilling in 2020.
