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Developing the Digital Healthcare Workforce in Italy: The SIBIM Experience

  • Sara Marceglia
  • , Gabriella Balestra
  • , Alessio Bottrighi
  • , Mauro Giacomini
  • , Pierangelo Veltri
  • , Lucia Sacchi

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Abstract

The digital healthcare workforce is usually composed of two major types of professionals: the healthcare workers, who are the users of eHealth, and the health informatics developers, who are usually computer scientists, biomedical engineers, or other technical experts. Health informatics educators have the responsibility to develop the appropriate skills for both, acting within their specific curricula. Here we present the experience of the Italian Society of Biomedical Informatics (SIBIM) and show that, whereas the technical curricula are widely covered with a large range of topics, the eHealth education in medical curricula is often limited to simple bioengineering and informatics skills, thus suggesting that eHealth associations and organizations at the national level should focus their efforts towards increasing the level of eHealth contents in medical schools.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationDigital Professionalism in Health and Care
Subtitle of host publicationDeveloping the Workforce, Building the Future - Proceedings of the EFMI Special Topic Conference 2022
EditorsPhilip Scott, John Mantas, Arriel Benis, Ivana Ognjanovic, Kaija Saranto, Andrew Ware, Ian Wells, Parisis Gallos
PublisherIOS Press BV
Pages46-50
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781643683102
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 31 Aug 2022
Event2022 European Federation for Medical Informatics Special Topic Conference: Digital Professionalism in Health and Care: Developing the Workforce, Building the Future, STC 2022 - Cardiff, United Kingdom
Duration: 7 Sept 20228 Sept 2022

Publication series

NameStudies in Health Technology and Informatics
Volume298
ISSN (Print)0926-9630
ISSN (Electronic)1879-8365

Conference

Conference2022 European Federation for Medical Informatics Special Topic Conference: Digital Professionalism in Health and Care: Developing the Workforce, Building the Future, STC 2022
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityCardiff
Period7/09/228/09/22

Keywords

  • Biomedical Education
  • Health Informatics
  • SIBIM

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