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What is the impact of health platforms on reskilling medical workers in the Global South?
Dimitra Petrakaki and colleagues on how health reskilling platforms can overcome unintended digital 'epistemic colonialism' to equip medical professionals with relevant, and locally appropriate, skills and knowledge.
From ‘making up’ professionals to epistemic colonialism: Digital health platforms in the Global South
Platforms have been studied in terms of their impact on knowledge production and generation of social value. Little however is known about the significance of the knowledge they transfer to the recipient communities—often in faraway countries of the Global South—or its potential perceived colonizing effects. Our study explores the [...]
Call for papers: Special Issue on digital work in healthcare
The issue will seek to understand what can be learnt from previous manifestations of digital healthcare work.
Long-term care in the gig economy
Advances in digital technologies have led to the development of a flourishing platform economy in the provision of long-term personal care at home.
Digital platforms’ role in re-skilling healthcare professionals for Covid-19 recovery
This related project, funded by the UKRI- Higher Education Innovation Fund, explores whether and how digital platforms can be used as a rapid intervention to re-skill healthcare workers in emergencies.
agiLab
agiLab is a collaboration between academics and practitioners to develop more flexible ways of meeting the needs of workers, patients and society.
Leading an Agile Workforce in the NHS
This related project explores the move into agile-working for NHS staff. Funded by the NHS People Directorate/Leadership Academy.
The Care Necessities: Developing Inclusive Digital Technologies for Scotland’s Post Pandemic Social Care
This Innovation Fund project explored the extent to which the introduction of technological innovation in social care has been characterized by care worker and service user participation in the choice, implementation and evaluation of technology.
The role of digital health platforms in re-skilling healthcare professionals in developing countries: The case of MedicineAfrica
There is limited understanding about how digital health platforms can establish and develop professionalism in developing countries, especially where continuous professional development opportunities are scarce or under-developed. Our research illustrates how this can be achieved by drawing on a qualitative study of a non-profit platform, MedicineAfrica, that is dedicated [...]
Creating social value in online communities through digital activism
Online health communities bring together patients, caregivers, clinicians, researchers, academics and commerce, including the pharmaceutical industry. These digital platforms focus on common interests such as a particular disease, research, therapies or campaigning to influence policy and funding. Research has revealed that online health communities can reduce regional health disparities [...]