A Digitally Competent Health Workforce: Scoping Review of Educational Frameworks.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Digital health technologies can be key to improving health outcomes, provided health care workers are adequately trained to use these technologies. There have been efforts to identify digital competencies for different health care worker groups; however, an overview of these efforts has yet to be consolidated and analyzed.

Objective

The review aims to identify and study existing digital health competency frameworks for health care workers and provide recommendations for future digital health training initiatives and framework development.

Methods

A literature search was performed to collate digital health competency frameworks published from 2000. A total of 6 databases including gray literature sources such as OpenGrey, ResearchGate, Google Scholar, Google

SUBMITTER: Nazeha N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7677019 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature