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
2008/09年度電子商務推廣計劃- 中醫藥從業員電子健康培訓課程
背景
政府一直與業界及專業團體合作，協助本地企業，尤其是中小型企業，推廣應用資訊及通訊科技，充分發揮資訊科技的潛力及效益，以提升他們整體的競爭力。自2004年起，政府資訊科技總監辦公室透過「電子商務推廣計劃」，與有關業界組織合作，向不同界別的中小型企業推廣電子商貿。至今已資助推出了14項針對十個不同行業的電子商務推廣計劃。
另一方面，政府於2009年初推行長者醫療劵試驗計劃。期間獲悉很多中醫師由於未有在診所內配備電腦，亦不了解如何應用資訊科技處理日常的臨床工作，以致未能參與，此實不利政府在未來十年所推行的全民電子健康記錄互通計劃。
有鑑於資訊科技的應用在中醫藥業界並未普及，此現象對日後電子健康的推廣、以及在不同醫療機構之間傳發及共享病人訊息及醫療記錄，均做成障礙，而大部分的中醫師現時還是按照傳統模式進行日常的臨床工作，並以自僱或中小企的模式營運，政府資訊科技總監辦公室遂於2009年4月資助互聯網專業協會推行「2008/09年度電子商務推廣計劃-中醫藥從業員電子健康培訓課程」計劃。此計劃得到電子健康聯盟的全力推動，並獲得港九中醫師公會及新華中醫中藥促進會的支持。
目標
計劃的目標不單培訓中醫師如何在日常工作中使用資訊科技，而且希望讓他們認識到全球電子健康的新趨勢，電子病歷的隱私和安全問題，長者醫療劵試驗計劃，以及坊間一些中醫診所管理系統等等。總括來說，期望透過推出這個培訓課程，能夠幫助現時以自僱或中小企模式營運的中醫師提高服務質素、增加對資訊科技的了解，藉以提高日常的工作效率及營商上的可持續性及競爭力，最終可以配合未來全港醫療界應用資訊科技及電子健康記錄的大趨勢。
優勢
現時坊間雖然有不少介紹資訊科技的培訓課程，但此類課程並未切合中醫藥從業員的具體需要。然而，本課程的設計及推廣工作，既邀得港九中醫師公會及新華中醫中藥促進會的積極參與並提供寶貴意見，再加以互聯網專業協會與電子健康聯盟在項目的開發及具體執行上的全情投入，必然令本項目達致最佳效果。
是次培訓課程將透過講課及一人一電腦的工作坊形式，將有關電子健康的訊息介紹給學員；稍後並會製作電子教材，讓學員能夠隨時重溫以鞏固所學。務求能針對中醫藥從業員的工作需要，把推廣資訊科技和電子健康的工作做到最好，以造福中醫藥業界。