BookKerryn Butler-Henderson, Karen Day, Kathleen Gray, editors.
Summary: This book provides a detailed guide to the highly specialised but little known health information workforce - people who are health informaticians, digital health experts, and managers of health data, health information and health knowledge. It explains the basis of their unique functions within healthcare - their educational pathways and standards, professional qualifications and industry certifications, scholarly foundations and principles of good practice. It explores their challenges, including the rise of the health consumer movement, the drive to improve equity and quality in healthcare, new technologies such as artificial intelligence, and the COVID-19 infodemic. Case studies describe how practitioners in real-world roles around the world are addressing the digital transformation of health. The Health Information Workforce: Current and Future Developments offers insights into a skilled group of people who are essential for healthcare services to function, for care providers to practice at the top of their scope, for researchers to generate significant insights, and for care consumers to be empowered participants in health systems. This book offers new perspectives for anyone working or intending to work in the health sector. It is a critical resource for health workforce planners, employers and educators seeking guidance on the specialised capabilities needed for high performance in an increasingly information-intensive sector.
Contents:
Introduction
Book framework
Identity
Health information work and workers- a systematic literature review over the past 5 decades
No home in global occupation lists
Competency standards and accreditation
Potatoes or potahtoes: what's in a name?
Who is your tribe?
Remaining current and relevant in a changing landscape
Microcredentials
fashion, fad or the real deal?
Health information workers as health
Impact
The impact of specialised health information work on health systems performance professionals and as IT professionals
The socio-technical foundations of health information work
Evidence-based practice in this workforce
Practice- based evidence in this workforce
Case studies of impact on access and equity
Case studies of impact on safety and quality
Case studies of impact on efficiency and sustainability
Innovation
Globalisation and outsourcing of health information work
Educating every health professional to be an information professional
Reinventing health information work in response to AI in healthcare
Consumer health literacy and digital patients
the role of the health information workforce
Identity
Case study: working as a clinical health information specialist
medical
Case study: working as a clinical health information specialist
nursing
Case study: working as a clinical health information specialist
allied health
Case study: working as a health information management specialist
Case study: working as a health librarian specialist
Case study: working as a health data scientist specialist
Case study: working as a public health information specialist
Case study: working as a health research information specialist
Case study: working as a health cyber security specialist
Case study: working as a health CIO specialist.