Enhancement of Public Health Professionals via Digital Transformation Competencies
A special issue of Healthcare (ISSN 2227-9032).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (29 February 2024) | Viewed by 1810
Special Issue Editors
Interests: medical and health education; digital transformation in health care; technology enhanced learning; human animal studies
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2. Department of Digital Medicine, Medical Faculty OWL, Bielefeld University, 33615 Bielefeld, Germany
Interests: gamification; serious games; digital learning, digital health and medical education, inverted classroom model
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The digital transformation is not only changing industry, commerce or services, but also very much the entire health sector. In recent years, we have seen a rapid increase in digital innovations in the health sector. Global challenges such as pandemics, inequitable distribution, ageing societies or climate change require new methods, technologies and approaches.
These changes will not only be steady, but may also be disruptive. It is therefore important that all those involved in the health system have digital competences in order to not only guarantee participation, but also to have options for action and design.
This concerns all professions in the health sector, e.g. from doctors to nurses and therapeutic professions to staff in the organisation and administration. Patients also need digital health literacy in order to participate in all the new possibilities of care.
The teaching of digital competences in education, further education and training is an important task for the coming years. Many job profiles will change. The demands, but hopefully also the appreciation, will increase significantly.
This Special Issue presents possibilities and experiences with the further development of the health professions through digital transformation literacy.
We are looking forward to receiving your manuscripts on studies in this field.
You may choose our Joint Special Issue in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.
With best regards
Prof. Dr. Jan Ehlers
Dr. Daniel Tolks
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- digital literacy
- digital health
- e-health
- digital transformation
- transformation literacy
- health information technology
- wearable devices
- telehealth
- telemedicine
- personalized medicine
- education
- training
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