Australia is experiencing challenges in its health workforce
profile to embrace reforms based on ehealth. Although there is
much literature on the importance of ehealth education, our
study shows that ehealth education for entry-level clinicians is
not meeting the demands for a technologically savvy clinical
health workforce. This poster reports on a nationally funded
project1 which examines ehealth education for the future clinical workforce in Australia. It discusses 3 key components: the
current state of teaching, learning and assessment of ehealth
education in health profession degrees in Australia; inclusion
of ehealth competencies in accreditation guidelines of health
profession degrees and ehealth skills and competencies in job
descriptions for the future Australian clinical workforce. It is
based on a systems view methodology that these three components are interrelated and influence the development of an
ehealth capable health workforce. Results highlight that further
research and development across the health workforce is needed before the education of future clinical health professionals
can keep pace with the changes that ehealth is bringing to the
Australian healthcare system.
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Proceedings of the 14th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics