Health Service Managers' Digital Competencies: A Conceptual Framework

Brommeyer, Mark, Whittaker, Maxine, and Liang, Zhanming (2024) Health Service Managers' Digital Competencies: A Conceptual Framework. In: Proceedings of the 19th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics (310) pp. 1206-1210. From: MEDINFO 2023: 9th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics, 8-12 July 2023, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

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Abstract

Health service managers play a crucial role in managing and leading in the digital health environment. Development of the health management workforce that is ready to lead and manage digital health transformation requires partnerships across sectors, in not only developing workforce competence but also in developing supportive mechanisms that can translate competencies into practice. A framework presenting a systematic approach in enabling the development of a competent health management workforce in the digital health era has recently been published. The purpose of this paper is to explore and discuss the application of the framework in the Australian context, informed by the findings of a PhD research project that uses an empirically validated four-step approach to confirm the health service management workforce development needs in the digital health context. The PhD project has already confirmed: 1) the paucity of Australian Health Informatics Competency Framework (AHICF) competencies being included in Australian health service management postgraduate program curricula; 2) five key strategies that contribute to developing health management workforce competency and capacity; and 3) seven key factors that enable health management workforce development in the digital health context. Further understanding of the barriers and enablers for health service managers to develop capability and manage in the digital health environment, and the factors that influence digital health policy and practice will be developed, by critically analysing findings from focus group discussions with health managers and semi-structured interviews with digital health leaders, to be completed by May 2023.

Item ID: 82029
Item Type: Conference Item (Research - E1)
ISSN: 1879-8365
Keywords: competency frameworks, Digital health, health service management, sustainable development goals, workforce development
Copyright Information: © 2024 International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) and IOS Press. This article is published online with Open Access by IOS Press and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License 4.0 (CC BY-NC 4.0).
Date Deposited: 24 Mar 2024 22:59
FoR Codes: 42 HEALTH SCIENCES > 4203 Health services and systems > 420302 Digital health @ 60%
42 HEALTH SCIENCES > 4203 Health services and systems > 420309 Health management @ 40%
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