Fostering new digital care models in healthcare and social care sectors
▶Summary
The recent pandemic has speeded up the processes of adaptation of mHealth solutions, or the implementation of the digital tools in many healthcare and social care (HC&SC) areas, but it also uncove...
▶Objectives
The e4CARE project’s aim is to provide a one-of-a-kind innovative didactic inventory, which will fill the EU and national gaps in terms of digital competence shortages among healthcare and social care professionals in innovating the care model. The concrete objectives are to: - identify and map the digital care tools being created (but not necessarily used) in the healthcare and social care services during the last couple of years; -Identify and list the digital skills needed for the effective use of the digital tools, as well as assess the skills gap of the healthcare workforce in this respect; - create an educational innovative tools that would secure and increase healthcare and social care (potential) workforces’ digital competencies; - provide an online space for local, regional, and national healthcare and social care stakeholders to exchange best practices, build knowledge, gain educational materials and increase their awareness in this respect; - provide policymakers at the national and regional level with the solutions, best practices, and recommendations that can help them speed up the digitalization process of care provision more effectively without using unnecessary costs.