Projects
eHealth Training for Chinese Medicine Practitioners
Background
On 23 March 2009, as part of the 2008/09 Sector-Specific IT Training
Programme (SSP) for Chinese Medicine Practitioners (CMP), the Internet
Professional Association (iProA) has been awarded by OGCIO a project to organize
a series of eHealth Training Programs for CMPs. To ensure the successful the
implementation of this project, iProA has sought the support of eHealth
Consortium Limited (eHCL), in areas of project management, program coordination
and etc.
Objectives
In view of the training needs of the CMPs, it was proposed that a series of
training lectures/hands-on workshops to be conducted for them so that they could
save work and space in keeping patients' health record, feel easy in finding out
patients' past health history, comprehend the importance of eHealth, see its
current applications in various areas, understand how IT could assist them in
their daily work, think about potential application areas; and assist to drive
eHealth's further implementation.
As many traditional CMPs are illiterate
to IT, a Basic Level of Training Program will be designed to help them know the
basic IT terminologies and operation first. It would also be shown as how IT
could be linked to and bring benefit to their daily tasks. For those who have
already owned some IT knowledge, another Advanced Level of Training Program
would be offered to help them understand the eHealth concept, its current usage
and the world wide application/development trend in coming future so that they
will be more ready in implementing and driving the Territory Wide eHealth Record
Sharing System (TWeHRSS)
By launching these training programs, it can be expected to help the SME CMPs by:
1. Uplifting their IT capability and improving their operation efficiency and business sustainability
2. Enhancing their competitiveness in facing the future trend of applying IT and eHealth Record, and,
3. Raising their service quality
Target Participants
The training program aims at training up existing CMPs so that they would
have a basic IT knowledge (through the Basic Level of Training Program), and
broader view and more in-depth idea about eHealth, understand its necessity and
benefits (through the Advanced Level of Training Program), and become
pioneers/leaders to help driving its implementation in the specific sector of
CMP. The target is to train up 300 practitioners in the Basic Level, and 150 in
the Advanced Level, i.e., total 450 trainees. If the response/result is
good, similar training can be arranged subsequently without significant program
development effort.
eHealth Training for Chinese Medicine Practitioners