A systematic approach in developing management workforce readiness for digital health transformation in healthcare
Brommeyer, Mark, and Liang, Zhanming (2022) A systematic approach in developing management workforce readiness for digital health transformation in healthcare. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19 (21). 13843.
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Abstract
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has sped up digital health transformation across the health sectors to enable innovative health service delivery. Such transformation relies on com-petent managers with the capacity to lead and manage. However, the health system has not adopted a holistic approach in addressing the health management workforce development needs, with many hurdles to overcome. The objectives of this paper are to present the findings of a three-step approach in understanding the current hurdles in developing a health management workforce that can enable and maximize the benefits of digital health transformation, and to explore ways of overcoming such hurdles.
Methods: A three-step, systematic approach was undertaken, including an Australian dig-ital health policy documentary analysis, an Australian health service management postgraduate program analysis, and a scoping review of international literatures.
Results: The main findings of the three-step approach confirmed the strategies required in developing a digitally enabled health management workforce and efforts in enabling managers in leading and managing in the digital health space.
Conclusions: With the ever-changing landscape of digital health, leading and manag-ing in times of system transformation requires a holistic approach to develop the necessary health management workforce capabilities and system-wide capacity. The proposed framework, for over-all health management workforce development in the digital health era, suggests that national col-laboration is necessary to articulate a more coordinated, consistent, and coherent set of policy guide-lines and the system, policy, educational, and professional organizational enablers that drive a dig-ital health focused approach across all the healthcare sectors, in a coordinated and contextual man-ner.
| Item ID: | 76756 |
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| Item Type: | Article (Research - C1) |
| ISSN: | 1660-4601 |
| Keywords: | health service managers; competency frameworks; capacity building; digital health; health informatics; health workforce; health management degrees |
| Copyright Information: | Copyright: by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
| Date Deposited: | 21 Nov 2022 23:36 |
| FoR Codes: | 42 HEALTH SCIENCES > 4203 Health services and systems > 420302 Digital health @ 50% 42 HEALTH SCIENCES > 4203 Health services and systems > 420306 Health care administration @ 50% |
| SEO Codes: | 20 HEALTH > 2099 Other health > 209999 Other health not elsewhere classified @ 100% |
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