Just as technology can help improve HRH performance, mobile health (mHealth) technologies can also help improve the frequency, accuracy, interoperability, and robustness of health workforce information at decentralised levels of a health system (WHO, 2016a). Systematic data-driven approaches can also help district management health teams understand their HRH availability and reinforce health worker accountability, especially for community-based cadres and health workers in rural, remote, and hard-to-reach areas (WHO, 2016a). Moreover, technology can help to improve the digital literacy of medical personnel, which ultimately will lead to better care offered to patients and advances in the medical field (Konttila et al., 2019; Meskó et al., 2017; Pfob et al., 2021; Pol et al., 2020)

A good example of harnessing the appropriate technologies, in Sierra Leone, mobile phones were used to track and hold community health workers accountable for being present on the job without any diminished perception of supervision. mHealth can be a human resources management tool to track community health worker (CHW) activity—such as recording the GIS coordinates of each household visit form completed to ensure that the CHW is following up on the cases she reports (Vallières et al., 2016).

For example, a project conducted in Germany showed that IT and health care specialists showed excellent literacy in their respective disciplines, only a few individuals combined both digital and health care literacy. Multidisciplinary teams and transdisciplinary curricula are crucial to bridge skill gaps between disciplines and drive digital health initiatives (Pfob et al., 2021)., mobile health (mHealth) technologies can also help improve the frequency, accuracy, interoperability, and robustness of health workforce information at decentralised levels of a health system (WHO, 2016a). Systematic data-driven approaches can also help district management health teams understand their HRH availability and reinforce health worker accountability, especially for community-based cadres and health workers in rural, remote, and hard-to-reach areas (WHO, 2016a). Moreover, technology can help to improve the digital literacy of medical personnel, which ultimately will lead to better care offered to patients and advances in the medical field (Konttila et al., 2019; Meskó et al., 2017; Pfob et al., 2021; Pol et al., 2020)

A good example of harnessing the appropriate technologies, in Sierra Leone, mobile phones were used to track and hold community health workers accountable for being present on the job without any diminished perception of supervision. mHealth can be a human resources management tool to track community health worker (CHW) activity—such as recording the GIS coordinates of each household visit form completed to ensure that the CHW is following up on the cases she reports (Vallières et al., 2016).

 

For example, a project conducted in Germany showed that IT and health care specialists showed excellent literacy in their respective disciplines, only a few individuals combined both digital and health care literacy. Multidisciplinary teams and transdisciplinary curricula are crucial to bridge skill gaps between disciplines and drive digital health initiatives (Pfob et al., 2021).

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