The document discusses rapid digital upskilling in health. It notes challenges with traditional learning including technical difficulties, interruptions, irrelevant material, and decay of knowledge over time. It proposes addressing this by rapidly digitizing health workforce knowledge and placing it in an open repository organized by context and condition, not just libraries. This knowledge can then be used by others in a timely manner to improve patient care and support health workers.

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Connect Conference 2015:
Rapid Digital Upskilling
in Health
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Rapid Digital Upskilling
“Measure what you can
measure but if you can’t
transfer the knowledge
what is the point”….Prof. Steven Boyages, fmr CEO Western Sydney & Sydney West
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Our Purpose
“To improve patient care and
support healthcare workers
by assuring access to the right
knowledge in the right place at
the right time”
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A Little story…..

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• ~10% of Australian GDP (Is that the right level?
• ~15% of Workforce
• Workforce Decreasing, Demands
increasing
• Time to competence ~7+ years
(postgrad)
• Balance with “Unqualified Labour”
• Hospitals 80% same workload
• Allied Health
• Only Starting its Digital Journey
Some Key Health Statistics
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1. Interoperability, Like a Bank
2. Workflow Guide/Streamline
Logistics, like Hong Kong Harbour
3. Health Knowledge Transfer &
Aggregation,
4. Engagement, Personalised
Healthcare & Biometrics
5. Predictive Health, don’t shoot the messenger
6. Leadership & Mentorship
5 Necessary Health (R)evolutions
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Learning challenges
A study by ASTD and the Masie Center found that:
30% of potential learners don’t even begin compulsory
training
20% experience technical difficulty
10% 50% are interrupted at work while trying to train at
desks/worksites
20% hit a roadblock in the material and give up when not
supported
20% 45%drop out as material is irrelevant or redundant
30% of potential learning is lost as people don’t know how to
learn
50% of what learning remains atrophies before it is applied
What is left? 70% x 80% x 90% x 80% x 80% x 80% x 70% x 50% = 9% < 1/10th of
learning is actually meaningful (ASTD & Masie Centre 2001)

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What we are doing in
Health…..
• Rapidly digitise the knowledge of
health workforce so it can be used
by others
• Placed in an open repository cross
between “Britannica & Wikipedia”
• Time of Coffee
• Organised according to context and
condition states not just libraries
• “Procumers”

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• All practitioners want good health
outcomes..but what is the GP
Incentive?
• PCEHR is a good idea…
• Leadership!!!!!