Education and Training: Topol digital fellowship aspirants: Understanding the motivations, priorities and experiences of the next generation of digital health leaders

Abstract

Women were statistically significantly more likely to consider health inequality/inequity implications in their applications. Discussion The analysis offers an insight into motivations, priorities and experiences of the next generation of digital health leaders.There is a need to link aspirants with local digital leaders and to support broader consideration of health inequalities. Supporting such needs and gaps is expected to further help meet recommendations proposed in The Topol Review and contribute to optimising the skills of the future digital health workforce.

The typing is on the wall: Australia’s healthcare future needs a digitally capable workforce

“…55 Program evaluation highlighted the poor representation of nursing staff in comparison to workforce numbers with nursing contribution considered vital in digital health leadership. 56 With diversity in the specialised digital health workforce across roles and people, 1,11 training needs to extend beyond healthcare professionals to data scientists, computer scientists, engineers and bioinformaticians. 41…”