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The aim of this European interprofessional Health Informatics (HI) Summer School was (i) to make advanced healthcare students familiar with what HI can offer in terms of knowledge development for patient care and (ii) to give them an idea about the underlying technical and legal mechanisms. According to the students' evaluation, interprofessional education was very well received, problembased learning focussing on cases was rated positively and the learning goals were met. However, it was criticised that the online material provided was rather detailed and comprehensive and could have been a bit overcharging for beginners. These drawbacks were obviously compensated by the positive experience of working in international and interprofessional groups and a generally welcoming environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this study was to assess the project management of a national health information technology project focused on developing digital health care services. An e-questionnaire was sent at the end of the development project, and 93 experts (18%) from five university hospitals responded. The questionnaire was based on the Common Assessment Framework (CAF) to identify management success and also to get an overview of the project’s performance. The questionnaire contained 11 background variables and 17 Likert scale items in five themes on leadership, strategy and planning, people, partnerships and resources, and processes, and one open-ended question. After analysis using descriptive statistical methods, the results showed that, overall, participants felt confident about management of the project. Criticism focused on the distribution of resources and lack of knowledge about the status of development activities in other hospitals. The CAF enablers criteria revealed subjects for further development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The rapid growth of digital health and welfare services demands new competences for health and social care, information technology and business professionals. This study aims to describe the competences that students have before their studies and those they expect to gain from the study module "Developing Digital Health and Welfare Services" in multiprofessional groups during their bachelor studies. This study reports open-ended questions about student's knowledge concerning digital health prior to the study units. The results, analyzed by QSR NVivo 10 for Windows, show that students are keen to learn about developing digital health and welfare services and they see that multiprofessional work requires a communicative environment and respect for every profession. Students also believe that they have competences to bring to the multiprofessional group. A successful multidisciplinary development of digital health and welfare services requires changes and cooperation in education between various professions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study describes the eHealth4all@eu course development pipeline that builds upon the TIGER educational recommendations and allows a systematic development grounded on scientific and field requirements of competencies, a case/problem-based pedagogical approach and finally results in the syllabus and the course content. The pipeline is exemplified by the course Learning Healthcare in Action: Clinical Data Analytics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In response to the call for person-centered methods from ORM in 2018, this symposium seeks to provide substantive examples of person-centered methodology in practice. The first paper conducts a systematic review of the person-centered literature in careers research and discusses how the use of these methods is important for answering relevant questions. The second paper explores a novel person-centered method, the latent profile exploratory factor analysis, and discusses how this method may be useful in answering questions related to performance, personality and emotions. The final three papers provide substantive examples of profiling in management research and focus on topics such as job embeddedness, job crafting and employee engagement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study examines the effects of the job demands typical of international business travel (i.e., workload, pressure, and risks associated with destinations) and those of supportive HR practices applied as a job resource on psychological well-being (job exhaustion, vigor and satisfaction with work-related travel) among international business travelers (IBTs). The study is theoretically based on the Job Demands-Resources (JD-R) model and both health impairment and motivational processes were examined alongside the interaction effects of job demands and job resources. The study was conducted among 232 Finnish IBTs. Path analysis based on structural equation modeling (SEM) showed that, of the job demands, workload and pressure experienced in work demanding international business travel predicted job exhaustion, but risks related to travel destinations did not. Viewed as job resources, supportive HR practices for traveling predicted vigor and satisfaction with traveling work. They also provided a buffer against the negative effects of the risks of travel destinations on job exhaustion and satisfaction with work travel. Our findings indicate that organizations should pay attention to the workload of IBTs and the pressure they work under, and develop supportive HR practices, especially for IBTs who experience high safety and health risks, for example, at their destination. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]