Digital Health: What, How Much, and How Should I Learn?

In the digital age, healthcare professionals have to use various software programs. How do you answer these questions?

• Managers:
  • How knowledgeable are you about the selection process for these software programs?
    
  • What do you need to learn to choose the right software?
• Physicians:
  
  • What is your knowledge of using these software programs?
    
  • Are you offered ongoing training programs on digital health?
• Medical Laboratory Specialists:
  
  • How much do you know about Laboratory Information Management Systems (LAM) that you need to install in your laboratory?
    
  • When choosing these systems, are you aware of their integration capabilities with other software in your lab?
  • Are you offered ongoing training programs on digital health?
• Data Professionals and Health Information Technology / Software Developers and Producers:
  
  • What problems are you encountering regarding the health information technologies you are developing or producing?
  • What information would you like users to have obtained? 

Completing these surveys will be very beneficial in shaping the future of digital health in Türkiye.

• First, please fill out the Participant Information Form: Click here for the form.
  Participant Information Form once will be filled in.
  All surveys are important for a holistic view of digital health. However, you can only complete the surveys that interest you. You can access the surveys listed below by clicking on the colored links.
  
• Data Management Maturity: The success of healthcare software in your hospital to the success of data management implementation It depends. Click here to evaluate the status of your data management.
• Data Literacy: Success in the use, selection, production, and evaluation of software results. your data literacy It depends. Click here to assess your data literacy level.
• National Health Data Management, Healthcare services in the country are key to success. Defining a national health data strategy is key to the success of all software.  Click here to evaluate the status of National Health Data Management.
• Interoperability Standards in Healthcare: A hospital or medical laboratory uses a large number of software programs. These programs must work together. Therefore, software integration is necessary. For this reason... health information exchange and interoperability standards It is used. Click here to evaluate the usage status of the Interoperability Standard in Healthcare. 
• Secondary Use of Health Data: Data used for patient care is also used for medical and health research, quality assurance, and strategic goals and policies. secondary use This is called secondary use of health data. Many countries have developed national strategies for the secondary use of health data. Physicians can use this data to provide evidence-based information to their patients. Click here to evaluate the secondary use of health data.
• Click here to evaluate the secondary use of medical laboratory data.
• Click here to evaluate the secondary use of performance appraisal data in healthcare.
• National Health Information System, It directs all hospitals and healthcare providers. Click here to evaluate the status of the National Health Information System.
• The Workforce in Digital Health: Successful healthcare relies on a skilled workforce. Digital health is structured to facilitate successful healthcare. For success in digital health, there are common learning objectives for all healthcare professionals, from administrators and physicians to the most remote healthcare worker, as well as data professionals and information technology professionals. In this context, subject area specializations should be structured and training programs should be developed. Both institutional managements and scientific and professional associations are responsible for these programs. Click here for an assessment of the workforce situation in digital health in Türkiye. 

Information about the project:

Our company, located in Pamukkale Technopark, is carrying out the project "PT-PRJ-2020-009 Evaluation of the Utilization of Information Obtained from Medical Laboratories in National Health Strategies and Determination of Contributions and Recommendations for Increasing Capacity in the e-Health System".

The aim of this project is to develop national digital health and e-health strategies based on real-world data. To this end, the project aims to evaluate the role of medical laboratories, which play a crucial role in human health and patient safety, within the e-health system, to contribute to this research, and to compile recommendations.

The project consists of two sub-projects:

1. Determining the role of medical laboratories in the national e-health strategy document;
2. In this context, identifying what needs to be done to increase capacity and contributing to capacity building in the infrastructure.

Project-related files can be accessed by clicking on the headings below:

• Click here for the headings under which the collected information is presented.
• Click here for the Survey Information Document..
  • You can access and complete the surveys by clicking on the URL addresses in the Survey Information Document.
  • First, you must fill out the Participant Information Form. You will use the code you provide on this form in all surveys. This helps shorten the survey completion time (between 3-8 minutes).
  • It depends on each subsequent survey. In this context, you will not need to return to this page again.
• Click here for the list of institutions and organizations invited to participate in the surveys..
• Click here for the Ethics Committee approval certificate.