A Framework for a Social Semantic Registry of IT Skills for Healthcare Workforce

Abstract

Highly proficient eHealth health IT professionals assure health care and public health, while healthcare professional workforces should have the eSkills needed to make optimum use of their available eHealth health information technology. Addressing IT skills for healthcare workforce is seen as an important element of achieving greater social inclusion. Thus, in this paper we propose a framework for a social network based registry where the users (healthcare workforce), the institutions and the policy makers could, collaboratively shape the required IT skills and competences for each healthcare profession. At the same time, all knowledge created at the registry could be shared through the semantic web and linked with existing silos of knowledge.