The increasing demand for healthcare services, driven by demographic shifts throughout Europe will increase the number of jobs and the required skills of professionals in the health sector. Recently the need for digital skills for health care professionals is acknowledged at EU level. Digi4He will provide a platform for digital skills training in the health care sector. EU Educational Institutes, VETs, Health Care Associations and relevant EU Enterprises will exchange skills, experience and accessibility to be embodied in a single high quality training framework improving Digital Skill training all over European Countries. At first the content will be defined by determining the digital skills every health professional must possess to use eHealth solutions to their full potential after the verification of the specific educational needs of Doctors, Operators and professionals of digital technology of medical imaging equipment. Then partners will develop user-adapted training modules on the specific context concerning digital image processing and administration, including recent changes on pedagogical landscape of Health care distance learning with the use of innovative Vocational Open Online Courses (VOOCs) for Digital Skills on health domain topics like medical imaging. After the evaluation of the approach’s functionality through the pilot study over 4 EU countries and adjustment of the educational framework that finally will be accredited using the appropriate EU directives and Agencies of training accreditation, (with SLP Certificates, nano-degrees, badges), improving quality of national and European Education on digital technologies in health sector. Finally Digi4He will provide the developed open-access training framework additionally with its technical support to the community of Health care professionals of EU. The partnership will work towards the educational framework to be utilized and integrated in national and EU level VET training systems on health.
The objectives of the project were: -to strengthen the digital skills of health professionals: theoretical and practical training courses.-to increase the international dimension of education and training: every partner involved in education and training in this project will bring their competencies and experience to create a pan-European structure aiming at fostering innovation.-to disseminate best practices: the project will notably result in a white book addressing this question in Europe.
The project aimed to address the gap in skills of the health sector workforce and provide an innovative training framework with a roadmap for certification schemes. Finally, the project addressed EQF levels up to 4 and will formulate a wide spectrum of courses for enhancing the skills of health professionals. In the context of the project, there have been developed more than 40 training modules. Each module has three main parts: Introductory material, core material, and advanced material.
<< Background >> The project aimed to address the gap in skills of the health sector workforce and provide an innovative training framework with a roadmap for certification schemes. Finally, the project addressed EQF levels up to 4 and will formulate a wide spectrum of courses for enhancing the skills of health professionals. In the context of the project, there have been developed more than 40 training modules. Each module has three main parts: Introductory material, core material, and advanced material. << Objectives >> The objectives of the project were: -to strengthen the digital skills of health professionals: theoretical and practical training courses.-to increase the international dimension of education and training: every partner involved in education and training in this project will bring their competencies and experience to create a pan-European structure aiming at fostering innovation.-to disseminate best practices: the project will notably result in a white book addressing this question in Europe. << Implementation >> The main implementations that were achieved during the reporting period are the following:Design and execution of questionnaire studies and interview studies.Analysis and specification of the needs for exact digital skills in the health sectorAnalysis and specification of the current gaps in the digital skill in health sectorAnalysis of the VET programs in the health sector in EuropeDevelopment e-learning platformDeveloping over 40 Open Training Courses.Evaluate the training content. << Results >> The main results that were achieved are the following:Formulation of the report on digital skill needs and gaps in the health sector.Formulation of the report on the guidelines for digital skills for VET students in the health sectorDesign of the curriculum for digital skills of health professionals Design and creation of courses on digital skillsImplementation of an innovative VOOC platform for health digital skills Publications in International Conferences and Journals