A C A D E M I C R E S E A R C H
THE GLOBAL H I DD I N WORKFORCE : WHAT I T I S AND HOW TO HE L P DEVE LOP I T
KAREN DAY THE UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND | REBECCA GRAINGER UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO | KERRYN BUTLER-HENDERSON RMIT UNIVERSITY & UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA | KATHLEEN GRAY UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE & UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA
The survey for New Zealand’s specialist digital health workforce will be on again in May 2021. First held in November 2018, this survey is now a global census held in multiple countries during May this year.
inform workforce planning, education and training needs, and the future configuration of the workforce. The survey tool was developed to examine the Australian and New Zealand workforce, with the first census successfully taking place in each country in 2018. The information from this first census has been used by government, peak bodies, researchers and employers to understand the current workforce composition and plan for the future. As part of the ongoing commitment to supporting the workforce, New Zealand and Australia are again partnering to hold the HIDDIN Census in May 2021. This is an important research project to describe and develop the digital health workforce to enable meaningful transformation of the health sector in the future. Digital health specialists can make a difference.
friends who, like you, have a HIDDIN role, to help develop a description of the HIDDIN profile in our workforce in New Zealand and Australia.
conclusion
Our workforce is HIDDIN, in more ways than one. To ‘unhide’ the Health Informatics, Digital, Data, Information, kNowledge workforce and make it easier to spot, a Census has been designed. The results of the census will be used to ‘unhide’ the HIDDIN workforce. It’s over to you to complete the HIDDIN Census in May to help describe the profile of the specialist digital health workforce and make the profession visible.
the HIDDIN workforce
We say that this workforce is HIDDIN: Health Informatics, Digital, Data, Information, kNowledge and hard to spot. It is the specialist group of professionals whose primary functions or activities of their job include designing, developing, implementing, maintaining, managing, operating, evaluating, or governing the technology, systems, and services for the health sector. This often includes people working in roles that could be classified, but not limited, to digital health, health informatics, data science, health information management, clinical classifications, or health libraries and knowledge management. The HIDDIN Census project started in Australia after a government study into the workforce recommended the need for data collection about the workforce. It was decided that researchers conduct a census every three years, completed by people who self-identified as part of this specialist workforce. The results create a snapshot of the workforce to hinz.org.nz/page/JOIN
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what’s next?
The Census is open during 1-31 May 2021 and can be completed through an anonymous online survey (with hard copy available on request). The survey links will go live just before 1 May, so register for notifications so that you can be told when it’s ready. Please complete the survey and pass on the link to your colleagues and
WANT TO KNOW MORE ? Karen Day | k .day@auckland. ac .nz
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