We are not educating the future clinical health professional workforce adequately for e-health competence: Findings of an Australian study

Ambica Dattakumar; Kathleen Gray; Kerryn Butler Henderson; Anthony Maeder; Helen Chenery

doi:10.3233/978-1-61499-078-9-33

We are not educating the future clinical health professional workforce adequately for e-health competence: Findings of an Australian study

Ambica Dattakumar^*, Kathleen Gray, Kerryn Butler Henderson, Anthony Maeder, Helen Chenery

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This paper reports on a national study of the present approaches in Australian tertiary education, to preparing future clinical health professionals to work competently in an increasingly e-health enabled healthcare sector. The argument for increasing clinical health professionals' knowledge about e-health and health informatics has been advanced repeatedly over past decades in Australia and elsewhere. However, peer-reviewed accounts of good practice in implementing and evaluating e-health education in health profession degrees anywhere are scarce. Our study reports on surveying approximately 100 degree coordinators in 40 clinical health professions in 30 universities across Australia. It finds that currently, teaching and assessment of future clinical health professionals does not ensure that Australia will have a clinical workforce that is adequately professionally empowered to work with e-health. This paper provides important baseline data for planning improvements to e-health education for Australia's future clinical health professionals.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Health Informatics: Building a Healthcare Future Through Trusted Information - Selected Papers from the 20th Australian National Health Informatics Conference, HIC 2012
Place of Publication	Australia
Publisher	IOS Press
Pages	33-38
Number of pages	6
Volume	178
ISBN (Print)	9781614990772
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-078-9-33
Publication status	Published - 2012
Externally published	Yes
Event	20th Australian National Health Informatics Conference, HIC 2012 - Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia Duration: 30 Jul 2012 → 2 Aug 2012

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Conference	20th Australian National Health Informatics Conference, HIC 2012
Country/Territory	Australia
City	Sydney, NSW
Period	30/07/12 → 2/08/12

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Dattakumar, A., Gray, K., Henderson, K. B., Maeder, A., & Chenery, H. (2012). We are not educating the future clinical health professional workforce adequately for e-health competence: Findings of an Australian study. In Health Informatics: Building a Healthcare Future Through Trusted Information - Selected Papers from the 20th Australian National Health Informatics Conference, HIC 2012 (Vol. 178, pp. 33-38). IOS Press. https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-078-9-33

Dattakumar, Ambica ; Gray, Kathleen ; Henderson, Kerryn Butler et al. / We are not educating the future clinical health professional workforce adequately for e-health competence : Findings of an Australian study. Health Informatics: Building a Healthcare Future Through Trusted Information - Selected Papers from the 20th Australian National Health Informatics Conference, HIC 2012. Vol. 178 Australia : IOS Press, 2012. pp. 33-38

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Dattakumar, A, Gray, K, Henderson, KB, Maeder, A & Chenery, H 2012, We are not educating the future clinical health professional workforce adequately for e-health competence: Findings of an Australian study. in Health Informatics: Building a Healthcare Future Through Trusted Information - Selected Papers from the 20th Australian National Health Informatics Conference, HIC 2012. vol. 178, IOS Press, Australia, pp. 33-38, 20th Australian National Health Informatics Conference, HIC 2012, Sydney, NSW, Australia, 30/07/12. https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-078-9-33

We are not educating the future clinical health professional workforce adequately for e-health competence: Findings of an Australian study. / Dattakumar, Ambica; Gray, Kathleen; Henderson, Kerryn Butler et al.
Health Informatics: Building a Healthcare Future Through Trusted Information - Selected Papers from the 20th Australian National Health Informatics Conference, HIC 2012. Vol. 178 Australia: IOS Press, 2012. p. 33-38.

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Dattakumar A, Gray K, Henderson KB, Maeder A, Chenery H. We are not educating the future clinical health professional workforce adequately for e-health competence: Findings of an Australian study. In Health Informatics: Building a Healthcare Future Through Trusted Information - Selected Papers from the 20th Australian National Health Informatics Conference, HIC 2012. Vol. 178. Australia: IOS Press. 2012. p. 33-38 doi: 10.3233/978-1-61499-078-9-33

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