Digital Competency In Health Workforce Well Below What Is Needed
Friday, 16 April 2021, 5:58 am Tāmaki Makaurau - The overall level of digital competency in Aotearoa’s health workforce is well below what is needed to utilise digital health technology, a brand new New Zealand Health IT (NZHIT) report says. It is also crucial that effective leadership, targeted funding and change management is prioritised to increase our health workforce's digital literacy skills. The NZHIT report says healthcare has yet to undergo the consumer driven digital revolution that has taken place in many other industries, for example retail, travel, and banking. “Increasingl...