Education for eHealth--a status analysis.
eHealth is not only a growing market, but also an important factor for new healthcare systems. National and European initiatives implicitly demand a higher level of knowledge in the areas of healthcare, engineering and management. As part of the eLearning4eHealth project an initial web based study was performed concentrating on European and global eHealth related educational programs. The results show that eHealth related courses do not evenly exist for the identified professions. 43% of the offered programs are focused on the engineering sector, whereas only 21% are available for the management sector. In order to offer compatible and comparable state of knowledge in the identified fields of profession and knowledge, further educational programs may be necessary. Despite the found shortcomings, results have shown that international activities have started in order to close the gaps and improve the quality of knowledge in the interdisciplinary field of eHealth.
Department of Information Engineering & Security, University of Applied Sciences Technikum Wien, Austria.
Juliane
J
Herzog
Department of Information Engineering & Security, University of Applied Sciences Technikum Wien, Austria.
Birgit
B
Pohn
Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Applied Sciences Technikum Wien, Austria.
Mathias
M
Forjan
Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Applied Sciences Technikum Wien, Austria.
Stefan
S
Sauermann
Department of Information Engineering & Security, University of Applied Sciences Technikum Wien, Austria.
Philipp
P
Urbauer
D002568:Certification / Q000592:standards / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D020375:Education, Distance / Q000592:standards / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005060:Europe; D006281:Health Occupations / Q000193:education* / Q000592:standards / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006280:Health Workforce / Q000592:standards / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D008490:Medical Informatics / Q000193:education* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*