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Developing a Standardized Health Knowledge and Skill-Based Framework for the Digital Age

Tuesday May 20, 2025 14:30 - 15:00 F2

Lecturer: Osama Elhassan

Track: Future Health and Care

Addressing the known health workforce knowledge and skill gap is a common strategic direction forming part of every nation’s digital health strategy. Many have been or continue to be engaged in the development of competency frameworks. ZIMAM, which is a non-for-profit organization has adopted a collaborative approach to the development of globally accessible computable framework able to support the professionalization of the digital health knowledge domain, and support digital health career pathways development. Its research project is making use of the Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA) 9th Ed by contextualizing this to suit the health industry and by its harmonization with other competency frameworks. 

Language

English

Topic

Workforce of the future

Seminar type

Live + On site

Lecture type

Presentation

Objective of lecture

Inspiration

Level of knowledge

Intermediate

Target audience

Management/decision makers
Organizational development
Care professionals

Keyword

Innovation/research
Government information
Informatics/Interoperability

Lecturers

Osama Elhassan Lecturer

ZIMAM