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title: "Leading Digital Transformation (and Upskilling) in Health Care"
language: "en"
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description: "The digital transformation of the healthcare industry is changing the demands on the professional roles of healthcare professionals."
publisher: "Lehrstuhl für Management und Innovation im Gesundheitswesen, Universität Witten/Herdecke"
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# Leading Digital Transformation (and Upskilling) in Health Care

*The digital transformation of the healthcare industry is changing the demands on the professional roles of healthcare professionals. We explore the needs of healthcare professionals and leaders and the skills that will be relevant in the future.*

## **Key Takeaways**

- Medical expertise continues to dominate the recruitment of physician leaders. Digital skills are gaining in importance, but the mastery of programming languages and similar technical skills remains less relevant for physicians.
- More than 90% of German physicians use smartphones to communicate at work, which increases efficiency but also poses security risks because employers rarely provide professional devices.
- For nurses, the expected increase in efficiency at work is decisive for the motivation to use digital applications.
- Young professionals expect the digital health care of the future to enable them to access health information, communicate with providers, and manage their own health data.

## Successfully Completed Projects

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### **Digitalization in nursing – a vignette study in German hospitals**

A vignette analysis was used to investigate which motives and values are particularly conducive to the introduction and use of digital applications in hospitals.

**Article: Digitization in Everyday Nursing Care: A Vignette Study in German Hospitals**
Lisa Korte, Sabine Bohnet-Joschko, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH), 2022
This article is available [here](https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/19/17/10775).

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### **Young Professionals’ Expectations for the Future of Digital Healthcare**

The aim of the study was to use a mixed-method approach to investigate the usage requirements and the supply and provider preferences of Generation Y in order to be able to specify digital supply options for this target group.

**Article: Generation Y’s expectations for digital health innovations**
Thea Kreyenschulte, Sabine Bohnet-Joschko, Bundesgesundheitsblatt, 2022
This article is available [here](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00103-022-03567-2).

**Fachartikel: Nutzung digitaler Innovationen durch Patient*innen im Versorgungsprozess – Ein Scoping Review**
Thea Kreyenschulte, Sabine Bohnet-Joschko, Bundesgesundheitsblatt, 2022
This article is available [here](https://www.thieme-connect.de/products/ejournals/abstract/10.1055/a-1791-0689).

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## **Other publications:**

1. [Smartphone Use and Security Challenges in Hospitals: A Survey among Resident Physicians in Germany](https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/19/24/16546)
2. [Ärztliche Führung im Krankenhaus der Zukunft – Kompetenzentwicklung bei digitaler Transformation](https://www.thieme-connect.com/products/ejournals/pdf/10.1055/a-1920-3609.pdf)
3. [Technical Readiness and Stereotypes in Hospital Nursing – A Question of Gender and Age?](https://www.mdpi.com/2039-4403/13/1/13)

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