NZ Digital Health Academy - email discussion converted to Discourse

[NathanK (Nathan Kershaw)]

@karenblake

This is from over a year ago- not sure why it’s resurfaced.

My fault - unanticipated glitch from decommissioning the Digital Academy sub-category due to disuse.

@i.hunter

Having a conversation around current thinking in this space would be worthwhile though.

Yes it would. Certainly what I’ve heard is:

1. We need to focus on lifting general digital literacy in health as the first priority; COVID-19 has made this blindingly obvious
2. Lifting the digital skills of digitally interested clinicians can come later

[KarenDay]

An interesting topic to consider is ‘digital equity’. There’s some interesting literature about this concept available in Google Scholar. Perhaps we could start up a reading club on topics of mutual interest?

[karenshaw]

It is an interesting topic and one that definitely deserves more attention. Both digital literacy in health and digital equity need to be considered side by side I think as you cannot have on without the other, not if we expect them to work.