ehipp rounds ehealth market research presentation
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UBC's eHealth Strategy Office, Faculty of Medicine Authors: Liz Heathcote and Lana NewtonTRANSCRIPT
eHIPP RoundseHealth Market Research
Liz Heathcote
Lana Newton
Contents
• Introduction
• Current reporting on eHealth field
• Results of our market research
• Existing and planned UBC Courses
• Questions and Discussion
Introduction and Background
eHealth education at
UBC
eHealth Landscape
• Review of literature, particularly:
– eHealth landscape and future
– job prospects for graduates
– HI competencies
– existing programs
eHealth landscape
Canadian public health care sector is worth more than $150 billion per year
Since 2001, Canadian focus primarily on electronic health records.
$1.6-billion has been spent from federal funds, to build nationally compatible systems and platforms
In a study of electronic health record adoption among 11 wealthy nations, Canada ranked last in physician utilization at 37%. Canada Health Infoway: http://www.infoway-inforoute.ca/lang-en/about-infoway/news/media-room
eHealth landscape
B.C. has invested approximately $146 million in eHealth projects to “bring lab results, diagnostic scans, medication histories, and electronic Rx online ...”Gov’t News Release at http://www2.news.gov.bc.ca/news_releases_2005-2009/2008HSERV0101-001697.htm
BC health system faces “cost pressures from changing demographics; shortages in health human resources; growing costs of managing chronic diseases…” Leitch et al. “Leveraging Information Technologies…”
President Obama has allocated $2 billion for HIT infrastructure: • $36-40B - electronic health record adoption• $118M - workforce development.
Job market pros
• “Ahead of the curve career”*
•Current Canadian workforce of 32,540 needs to increase by 6,320 - 12,330 by 2014^
•eHealth is becoming central to health services, thus need:
o healthcare workers who know why/ when/ how eHealth tools;
o healthcare IT specialists;
o health administrators & consultants with IT & clinical workflow skills and knowledge;
o researchers in ehealth, human factor or technology-based research.
*U.S. News & World Report, Dec 2008^ Health Informatics and Health Information Management — Human Resources Report (Nov 2009)
• Temporary, project-based positions
• Lag in prediction to realization of job availability
• Difficulty finding positions
• Difficulty locating reliable salary information
Job market cons
Job descriptions
• COACH’s HI professions matrix from ‘emerging professional’ to ‘master’ at http://coachorg.com/career_development/professionalism/core_competencies.htm
• UK Health Informatics Career Framework (HICF) (http://www.hicf.org.uk/).
Existing Programs
Clinical
Potential Student Survey
• Not sure of longevity and “mainstream”nessof eHealth
• Not sure of value
• Peripheral understanding
• More interested in certificates or specializations
Potential Student Survey
Potential Student Survey
Student Survey - motivations
Student Survey - barriers
Student Survey - Topics
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80
14a: Data and databases
14b: History & development
14c. Health care sector
14d: Telehealth
14e. Role and benefits of ICT in health
14f: Health Care Systems
14g. Clinical Support Systems
14h: Clinical robotics
14i: Genomics and bioinformatics
14j: Future Trends
14k. Project Management
14l: Change Management
14m. Legal, security, privacy issues
Topic Areas for Postgraduate eHealth/ HI Study
Very important (4) Important (3) Somewhat Important (2) Not at all important (1)
Potential Employers
Who did we interview?
• Average years in career: 12 +
• Range: less than 5 years to 25 years
If you could create an eHealth Masters Grad, who would it
be?
Potential Employer Interviews: Preliminary Conclusions
• eHealth has increasingly large impact on healthcare
• There is a lag in uptake of eHealth because the field needs more professionally trained:
So??
• Still defining structures, the field itself
• eHealth & HI suffering from a low profile
• Existing health science/ medical graduates
• applied eHealth skills
• program evaluation skills
• Clinical vs IT vs business
• How does this match with your experience/ needs?
eHealth education at UBC
• Undergraduate – IHHS302, medical program redesign
• Postgraduate – Research Methods in eHealth
• High School – summer camps
• Web 2.0 in eHealth likely from September
• Professional Development – eHIPPs, short courses specific to health profession/ cultural context
