Category: eHealth

Updates from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control #ECDPC #Training programmes: ECDC organises several training activities in epidemiology, communicable diseases and public health. These include:

• online and live courses for public #health #professionals
• fellowships across the EU as well as the Mediterranean and Black Sea regions in intervention epidemiology and public health microbiology
• providing training and materials for public health trainers
• developing core competency frameworks to define, categorise and standardise public health expertise

More info at: https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/training

Red Cross #Resuscitation Training to improve #patient outcomes, #healthcare professionals can change the way we think about resuscitation training. Over 5000 healthcare facilities have embraced the American Red Cross Resuscitation SuiteTM  to improve patient care and help save more lives.

https://www.redcross.org/take-a-class/organizations/healthcare-professionals

World health Organisation: Health workforce education and training. The current #priorities within the WHO #Health #Workforce Department include:

• The Global Health Workforce Network Education Hub, coordinated by the WHO Health Workforce Department, brings together a collaboration of networks, agencies, academic institutions and individual experts to work collaboratively towards the development and dissemination of products that facilitate better alignment of student selection, pre-service and in-service education and training with population needs, health systems and health labour markets. The Education Hub is currently focusing on the development of a Global Competency Framework for UHC;
• Ensuring the quality and sustainability of the health workforce is essential to the achievement of UHC. The accreditation of educational institutions and the regulation of health worker practice are core mechanisms to ensure health workforce quality and sustainability. Across WHO Member States, regulatory mechanisms and resources are under stress due to the increasing volume and privatization of health professional education; rising importance of previously unregulated occupations; emergence of new occupations; humanitarian crises; accelerating international mobility; as well as escalating patient demand and expectation.  At the same time, innovations and reforms in regulation are underway across WHO Member States to strengthen health workforce quality and sustainability. WHO is convening 2-300 stakeholders at a symposium in December to address these issues;
• Digital education, if properly designed and implemented, can strengthen health workforce capacity by delivering education to remote areas and enabling continuous learning for health workers. WHO is developing guidelines on digital education for health workforce education and training.

More info: https://www.who.int/activities/health-workforce-education-and-training

Digital health sector is going to start surviving a golden age, especially after the pandemic, says digital health technical advisor Mr. Daniel Otzoy. He explains why the adoption of digital technologies in the health sector is an effective solution to reduce inequity and is happy to share that governments seek to achieve their health goals by investing more in digital health.

Find the full interview from the Global Health Equity Week here:

https://www.mobihealthnews.com/video/using-opportunity-digital-health-provides-reduce-inequity

On September 12, health ministers and delegates from 53 Europe’s states adopted the first-ever digital health action plan, confirms the World Health Organisation. This plan is a big step to improve and expand the concept of eHealth by efficiently adapting various digital tools in the health sector.

Full announcement and insights from the meeting can be found here:

https://www.who.int/europe/news/item/13-09-2022-countries-in-the-european-region-adopt-first-ever-digital-health-action-plan

In this year’s HIMSS22 APAC Health Conference & Exhibition, Singapore’s prime minister of health dr.P. Deorani shared his insights about patients’ health behaviour. He explained that even though patients know their health risks, most of them are not engaged to change their behaviour to prevent those risks. Dr. P. Deorani talked about efficient communication ways to make people want to participate in their own health management.

A link to the full article can be found here:

https://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/asia/digital-health-cannot-deliver-its-promise-without-patient-activation