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The Need for Developing Technology-Enabled, Safe, and Ethical Workforce for Healthcare Delivery

Strengthening of the health system is a safety imperative, especially in a crisis as caused by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. While there is a need for enhancing the number and skill sets of the public health professionals, especially the frontline workers, it will be prudent to use the digital heal...

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Autores principales: Sarbadhikari, Suptendra N., Pradhan, Keerti B.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Occupational Safety and Health Research Institute 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7438991/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32839672
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.shaw.2020.08.003
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description Strengthening of the health system is a safety imperative, especially in a crisis as caused by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. While there is a need for enhancing the number and skill sets of the public health professionals, especially the frontline workers, it will be prudent to use the digital health technologies, including artificial intelligence, in enhancing the capacity of the healthcare professional education and delivery. However, it has to be ensured that an ethical and safe approach is adopted to develop and use digital health technology and, ethically appropriate training is imparted, to enhance the capacity of the human resources for health, leading to an overall health system strengthening.
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spelling pubmed-74389912020-08-20 The Need for Developing Technology-Enabled, Safe, and Ethical Workforce for Healthcare Delivery Sarbadhikari, Suptendra N. Pradhan, Keerti B. Saf Health Work Short Communication Strengthening of the health system is a safety imperative, especially in a crisis as caused by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. While there is a need for enhancing the number and skill sets of the public health professionals, especially the frontline workers, it will be prudent to use the digital health technologies, including artificial intelligence, in enhancing the capacity of the healthcare professional education and delivery. However, it has to be ensured that an ethical and safe approach is adopted to develop and use digital health technology and, ethically appropriate training is imparted, to enhance the capacity of the human resources for health, leading to an overall health system strengthening. Occupational Safety and Health Research Institute 2020-12 2020-08-20 /pmc/articles/PMC7438991/ /pubmed/32839672 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.shaw.2020.08.003 Text en © 2020 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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