Training Blueprint for the Digital Transformation of Health and Care Erasmus Project

Project Title

Training Blueprint for the Digital Transformation of Health and Care

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for vocational education and training

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Health and wellbeing; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

Digital technologies have started to greatly influence healthcare. Despite the range of areas in which new digital technologies could make a substantial contribution to enhancing health care access, quality, and service while reducing costs, the health system has been slow to invest in and embrace such technologies. The project “Training Blueprint for the Digital Transformation of Health and Care” aimed at increasing health professionals digital & soft skills in order to reduce current existing gap between digital technology trends and their effective use in the health sector. A Consortium of 7 partners (three from Italy, Germany, Austria, Netherlands and UK), worked for 34 months on 4 Intellectual Outputs:
O1 – Digital Health Technology Trends & Implications for health professionals. This output created the knowledge base on successful practices on new health technologies & training methods; each identified three successful cases of adoption of digital solutions in healthcare and interviewed three people involved in them. O1 has been delivered as a report containing the results of the interviews and the analysis based on them. O1 was produced in English entirely, and extracts were translated into partner languages (Italian by PAT/FBK, German by FHS and TUD, Dutch by SSH).
O2 – Report on Digital Health & Soft Skills of tomorrow’s health professionals, produced a profile on the soft skills of health professionals working in a digital based/supported environment. each partner identified 3 successful cases to be interviewed to create a transversal skills profile. COGES prepared the questionnaire to be submitted to the respondents and each partner (excluding COGES and PAT) prepared their own interview report and shared with COGES which produced the O2 in reporting formats, ppt, and Layman report. O2 was produced in English entirely, and extracts were translated into partner languages (Italian by PAT/FBK, German by FHS and TUD, Dutch by SSH).
O3 – The Digital Health Lab-based Training Scheme. This Output produced the learning method and delivered the pilot courses (Digital Health Learning Labs – DHLLs), attended by around 150 trainees over the partners’ countries. This Output allowed the attendees to understand the potential of new technologies and their applicability in daily work life. The involved partners identified two important issues to be addressed within the training laboratories and developed their training programmes following a module provided by FBK, activity leader.
O4 – Digital Health Training Guidelines, aimed at strengthening health sector stakeholders’ capacity in investing in digital solutions and appropriate training methodology. The resulting document is structured in three sections and provided guidelines to Human Resources and training bodies to identify the skills present and those to be included in the staff employed in their structures, on the basis of which it is possible to prepare specific training courses using the methodology of the Third Output (Digital Health Learning Labs). The draft was shared with the partners and their feedback was collected, which was incorporated into the final document. O4 is produced in English as a document containing a Memorandum of Understanding among the partners countersigned by their respective representatives.
The four Intellectual Outputs were disseminated through 5 Multiplier events which were the occasion to launch and engage participants in the pilot courses of O3 (DHLL). UON was the only partner able to have the ME in person (February 2020). Subsequently, the other partners had to re-organise or postpone their MEs and finally, SSH, FHS, PAT, TUD kept them online, in compliance with COVID 19 management guidelines. The final project multiplier event was held on 13 July 2021 at the MEI2021 (=4th International Conference on Medical Education Informatics). The Conference was jointly organised by the University of Nottingham, project partner, and the University of Malaya, Malaysia.
The main results of the project are a common method available to understand trends in digital technology and an available map of successful cases of digital health-based work processes (Intellectual Output1); a profile of key soft skills needed to facilitate the adoption of digital solutions in healthcare (Intellectual Output 2); available training method and material (Digital Health Learning Labs – DHLLs) with an established team of training experts (Intellectual Output 3); a Memorandum of Understanding signed by one representative per partner, establishing an Observatory and formalizing a collaboration among the partners for follow-up the project’s results (Intellectual Output 4)). Overall, TBDTHC contributed to an increased awareness of healthcare actors on cross-border digital technology trends, increased knowledge of training providers about successful training methods adopted to introduce digital health solutions.

Project Website

http://trainblue.eu/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 417160 Eur

Project Coordinator

FONDAZIONE BRUNO KESSLER & Country: IT

Project Partners

• STICHTING SMART HOMES
• CO.GE.S. DON LORENZO MILANI SOCIETACOOPERATIVA SOCIALE
• FHS KUFSTEIN TIROL BILDUNGS GMBH
• PROVINCIA AUTONOMA DI TRENTO
• THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM
• TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET DRESDEN