Chapter One - Introduction to digital innovation in healthcare education and training

Abstract

Healthcare education and training is considered an early adopter of innovative methodologies and theories. Information and communication technology started to play a vital role in healthcare education and training from its early days. Digital innovation, enacted as new technology or novel use of existing technology; in the form of software, hardware, or a combination of two is on the forefront on delivering and acquiring knowledge and skills ever since. This chapter sets the scene for the field of healthcare/medical education informatics and allows the reader to follow the rest of the book, being a healthcare and medical tutor, a health professional, clinician, psychologist, a web scientist, learning technologist, engineer, computer scientist, manager, policy maker, academic, or researcher. The chapters of this book allow the reader to acquire contemporary knowledge about the evolution of learning technologies and the web and its integration and role within modern healthcare education and training. They inform the reader with the latest digital innovation in healthcare education and training enabling all type of readers to apply them in their practice. As a useful paradigm of a cross-theme scholarly explanation on digital innovation in healthcare education and training, it provides an in-depth knowledge and experience into digital innovation in healthcare education and training.