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Assess your digital health capabilities
Assess your Digital Health Capabilities
The digital health capability self-assessment tool for individuals provides you with an understanding of your capability and areas for development and continuous improvement opportunities working within digital in healthcare.
Everyone is unique, and so are your learning needs. We offer personalised upskilling pathways, allowing you to choose resources that align to your self-assessment results.
- Do you advocate for your consumers in digital health?
- Do you know how to manage a patient and their health data?
- Do you understand data quality in health?
- Do you know if it’s OK to use your personal device in the workplace
Take this individual self-assessment and see where you land.
Already registered? Start an assessment in your dashboard
The digital health capability self-assessment tool (Tool) for individuals provides you with an understanding of your capability and areas for development and continuous improvement opportunities working within digital in healthcare.
Everyone is unique, and so are your learning needs. We offer personalised upskilling pathways, allowing you to choose resources that align to your self-assessment results.
- Do you advocate for your consumers in digital health?
- Do you know how to manage a patient and their health data?
- Do you understand data quality in health?
- Do you know if it’s OK to use your personal device in the workplace
Take this individual self-assessment and see where you land.
About the digital health capability self-assessment tool
This Tool was commissioned by the Australian Digital Health Agency (The Agency), in collaboration with the Australasian Institute of Digital Health (AIDH) to provide health and care workers across Australia with a mechanism to self-assess their own digital health readiness and plan ongoing development accordingly.
Aligned to the DRAFT Australian Digital Health Capability Framework, the Tool empowers you to evaluate your existing level of competence in digital health. It encompasses the five domains outlined in the DRAFT Australian Digital Health Capability Framework, catering to health and care workers across three tiers of capability The Tool addresses capabilities identified in the DRAFT Australian Digital Health Capability Framework, through your interactions with patients, and health consumers, in your workplace settings.
Why should you self-assess your digital health capabilities?
Digital health is not just about the use of technology, it is about improving the delivery of care.
A key strategy of Australia’s National Digital Health Strategy Framework for Action (ADHA, 2022) is a health workforce confident in delivering care using digital health technologies. To foster confidence and maximise the benefits for health and care workers, service providers, and consumers across diverse healthcare settings, it is imperative to establish a standardised approach to developing the essential digital health capabilities within the workforce.
“A workforce with strong digital health capability ultimately benefits the patient: driving safer, higher quality care and a positive experience where consumers and patients are empowered”. (ADHA, 2021).
This Tool is provided to help you determine your workforce current level of capability across a broad range of digital health areas. The results can be used as a guide to determine areas for further development. This Tool can be repeated at regular intervals to monitor the growth of your workforce digital health capabilities.
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Mary, a dedicated nurse, became intrigued by the advantages of digital health following discussions with her colleagues at the hospital.
Mary does an internet search for ‘digital health skills for nurses’ and sees there is an AIDH created capability self-assessment tool available. She clicks the link and lands on the Digital Health Workforce Site homepage.
Impressed by the resources available, Mary decides to take the initiative and engage in the self-assessment process to further her understanding and proficiency in digital health.
Mary is reassured by the transparency regarding the assessment's development and data usage. Upon finishing the assessment, she gains access to her capability scores for each domain, instilling in her a sense of empowerment to enhance her skills through the Tool's guidance.
Included with her results, Mary discovers links to recommended resources, one of which she clicks, leading her to the comprehensive resource library. After three months and diligently engaging with the suggested resources, Mary undertakes the self-assessment once again.
The outcomes of her second self-assessment reflect marked improvement in her digital health capability, serving as a motivating factor for her to persist in her learning journey by tapping into the suggested resources embedded within the assessment results
Figure 1: Australian Digital Health Capability Framework
The Australian Digital Health Capability Framework
The ADHCF consists of five (5) domains:
Domain A – Digital Professionalism
Domain B – Leadership and Advocacy
Domain C – Data and Information Quality
Domain D – Information Enabled Care and Services
Domain E – Technology
Each domain spans the range of health and care workforce roles and organisational settings.
The framework provides a national approach for standardising digital health capabilities across a broad range of healthcare roles and settings.
Three capability levels
Instructions for completing the readiness assessment
There is no right or wrong answer when it comes to determining the current digital health capability level of your workforce.
It is recommended that the Tool is completed in the following stages:
Completing the Tool
There are a total of twenty-five (25) statements, five (5) statements per domain. Choose the appropriate response per statement.
15 - 30 minutes
Review results
Review your results directly after you complete the Tool or later by accessing your Dashboard
3-5 minutes
Resource links
Access the relevant Domain resources by clicking on the link provided upon receiving your results or later by going to Domain resources and choose the resources based on your results.
As per your availability
Feedback
Provide us feedback so we may improve the experience.
Readiness assessment results
Upon completing the Tool, you will be shown the results of your workforce readiness capability level, which is able to be seen at a later date on your 'Dashboard'. Based on your results, specific resources under 'Domain Resources' are provided for domains where additional enhancement of the workforce readiness capability is beneficial.
Results will be categorised as follows:
- A Formative result will highlight areas for potential further development
- An Intermediate result may indicate the workforce confidence in utilising digital health technology within their role and workplace
- A Proficient result may signify their capacity to guide others through peer-led training or mentorship in specific areas.
Below is an example of the summary of results for each domain of the Australian Digital Health Capability Framework (ADHCF):
- Domain A - Digital Professionalism: Proficient
- Domain B - Leadership and Advocacy: Intermediate
- Domain C - Data and Information Quality: Intermediate
- Domain D - Information Enabled Care and Services: Formative
- Domain E - Technology: Formative
Now, you can confirm your current level of ability in using digital in health across the three levels of capability using the Tool.
Already registered? Start an assessment in your dashboard