The right care in the right place: a scoping review of digital health education and training for rural healthcare workers.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Digital health offers unprecedented opportunities to enhance health service delivery across vast geographic regions. However, these benefits can only be realized with effective capabilities and clinical leadership of the rural healthcare workforce. Little is known about how rural healthcare workers acquire skills in digital health, how digital health education or training programs are evaluated and the barriers and enablers for high quality digital health education and training.

Objective

To conduct a scoping review to identify and synthesize existing evidence on digital health education and training of the rural healthcare workforce.

Inclusion criteria

Sources that reported digital health and education or training in the healthcare workforce in any healthc

SUBMITTER: Woods L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11370102 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature