Chapter Eleven - Teaching and integrating eHealth technologies in undergraduate and postgraduate curricula and healthcare professionals’ education and training

Abstract

This book chapter offers a different insight into the methodology of teaching eHealth by integrating digital innovation in healthcare education and training at the medical undergraduate level, the postgraduate level, and at the level of continuous professional education (CPE) in highly demanding clinical environments such as that of critical care. Many and significant challenges are posed to a healthcare profession student today, at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, as one is required to learn and practice or even design the modern and technology-rich clinical environment. Even more challenges are faced by healthcare professionals that are responsible for “real patients” and require taking decisions on the job and occasionally under high pressure. Such decisions must be based on accurate and reliable data, complete and readily available. Conclusively, we discuss prospects of learning and practicing eHealth, the challenges in integrating innovative IT technologies to educational procedure and the concept of embedding those processes to a real time assess-educate-assess cycle that uses real time data analytics and advanced micro-learning tools to optimize outcome.