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Assess your organisational readiness
Discover where your organisation stands in its digital health journey
An organisational readiness approach will provide valuable insights into your organisation’s workforce capabilities and its ability to gather essential data for strategic workforce planning.
Prepare your healthcare workforce to be digitally enabled by empowering them to gain the skills and confidence required to deliver high-quality care in today’s technology-driven healthcare environment.
Start by completing this organisational readiness self-assessment.
Already registered? Start an assessment in your dashboard
An organisational readiness approach will provide valuable insights into your organisation’s workforce capabilities and its ability to gather essential data for strategic workforce planning.
Prepare your healthcare workforce to be digitally enabled by empowering them to gain the skills and confidence required to deliver high-quality care in today’s technology-driven healthcare environment.
Start by completing this organisational readiness self-assessment.
About the organisational readiness 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 organisations/team leaders with a mechanism to assess the digital health readiness of their health and care workforce/team and plan ongoing development accordingly.
Aligned to the DRAFT Australian Digital Health Capability Framework (ADHCF), the Tool empowers you to evaluate your health and care workforce/team’s existing level of capability in digital health and encompasses the five domains outlined in the DRAFT ADHCF, catering to health and care workers. The Tool addresses capabilities identified in the DRAFT Australian Digital Health Capability Framework, across three tiers of capability.
Why should I assess my organisation’s 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.
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
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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