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Rethinking Workforce Skills To Become Ready For Future Digitalisation disrupts the way doctors and nurses used to work. We have to get ready for the redistribution of tasks, new roles and forms of teamwork within and beyond the health system. James Buchan – Senior Visiting Fellow at The Health Foundation – reveals during the European Health Forum Gastein how to adapt health workforce to new models of care. What new skills do health workforce need to adapt to the digitalisation of healthcare?
The important starting point is to be clear that digitalisation should be an enabler for effective and efficient delivery of care; it should not “drive” the process of care delivery. As such there is a need both for the health workforce to have a
good understanding of what digitalization will mean in practice, and also that they are trained to make the best use of the enabling technologies that exist – this includes data literacy, and acknowledging that patients and clients will “own” the data, or be increasingly be as aware of data, as the health professional. Some health professionals will also be directly involved in identifying scope for new
types of digitalisation and designing and implementing these innovations.
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