Health Knowledge Workers: Strategies for Literacy Development

Sajjad ur Rehman () and Abdus Sattar Chaudhry
Additional contact information
Sajjad ur Rehman: Department of Library and Information Science, College of Social Sciences, Kuwait University, P. O. Box 68168, Kaifan 71962, Kuwait
Abdus Sattar Chaudhry: Department of Library and Information Science, College of Social Sciences, Kuwait University, P. O. Box 68168, Kaifan 71962, Kuwait

Journal of Information & Knowledge Management (JIKM), 2016, vol. 15, issue 02, 1-13

Abstract: Health information systems (HISs) provide automated solutions for the clinical, informational, and managerial life of a hospital. These systems are optimally used when the knowledge workers are adequately equipped with the needed competencies. Three Kuwaiti hospitals have been engaged in adopting and using the same HIS. Jahra Public Hospital, one of the three, has been making progress in the use of HIS. It was hypothesised that capabilities and preparedness of knowledge workers are correlated with their extent of use of the HIS. Data were gathered from 124 healthcare knowledge workers using stratified random sampling. It was found that skills and abilities of these knowledge professionals are strongly correlated with their use of information and communication technologies (ICT) and HIS. Almost all the professionals used HIS, yet there was a wide variation in the use of HIS modules and applications. We also examined whether personal attributes of knowledge workers made any difference in their ICT and HIS skills and use. Results however revealed no such association. These professionals attached a great deal of importance with formal training, but urged that these knowledge workers had enhanced and involved role.

Keywords: Healthcare professionals; knowledge workers; competencies; health informatics; information literacy; information systems (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1142/S0219649216500210
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:wsi:jikmxx:v:15:y:2016:i:02:n:s0219649216500210

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from

DOI: 10.1142/S0219649216500210

Access Statistics for this article

Journal of Information & Knowledge Management (JIKM) is currently edited by Professor Suliman Hawamdeh

More articles in Journal of Information & Knowledge Management (JIKM) from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Tai Tone Lim ().