Understanding the gap: a balanced multi-perspective approach to defining essential digital health competencies for medical graduates
Rapid technological advancements have left medical graduates potentially underprepared for the digital healthcare environment. Despite the importance of digital health education, consensus on essential primary medical degree content is lacking. Focusing on core competence domains can address critical skills while minimising additions to an already demanding curriculum. This study identifies the minimum essential digital health competency domains from the perspectives of learners, teachers, and content experts aiming to provide a framework for integrating digital health education into medical curricula.
Addressing the Digital Divide in Health Education: A Systematic Review
The disparity in access to essential healthcare resources and services is exacerbated by the digital divide, which presents a significant obstacle to health education. Effective tactics to advance digital equity and provide equitable access to resources for telehealth and digital health are needed to close this gap. Digital databases such as PubMed, MEDLINE, Scopus, Web of Science, and Google Scholar were used to conduct a systematic review. Keywords and Boolean operators including "digital divide," "health education," "digital equity," "telehealth," "digital health literacy," and "strategies" were used in the literature search process. Only peer-reviewed English-language papers that addressed methods for bridging the digital divide in health education were accepted after being screened in accordance with the preset inclusion and exclusion criteria.
The Future is Here: Medical graduates need to be ready for digital health.
Digital technology has long been an important part of effective health-care delivery, evolving steadily to support clinical practice. In recent years, digital health has become central to improving efficiency, quality, safety, and accuracy across clinical processes. Advances in artificial intelligence (AI), combined with other digital technologies are creating both new opportunities and challenges that medical graduates must be prepared for.
He Ara Kaunuku: a Pathway Towards Digital Excellence in Aotearoa
This report, authored by Elle Archer and funded by the Department of Internal Affairs, provides the academic backbone for He Ara Kaunuku: A Pathway Towards Digital Excellence in Aotearoa. DECA is proud to be the home of the Kaunuku framework, and we thank Elle for gifting this taonga to our collective mahi. We are actively developing a delivery methodology that will sit alongside a national digital inclusion index, helping communities, councils, iwi, and partners turn equity goals into practical action. Our focus is to uphold the kaupapa of Kaunuku while supporting consistent, community-led assessment and long-term digital equity planning across Aotearoa.
Inquiry into Triple Zero Service Outages
ACCAN recently submitted to the Senate Environment and Communications References Committee’s Inquiry into Triple Zero service outages. Australians believe that access to mobile telecommunications is critical for participation in daily life.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Health: Views of whānau & community
This survey was conducted in September 2025, with 19 participants from our lived experience CLEAR rōpū, members from the Consumer Group at HQSC, and a number of wider patients who generously offered their time to share their thoughts on AI in health. The survey shows whānau are open to the potential of AI in healthcare, but confidence and understanding lag behind adoption. Building trust will depend on transparent communication, culturally grounded education, and tangible examples of AI improving care without replacing human connection.
Robotic Process Automation (RPA) Vs Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Download this factsheet to help understand the difference between Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and Artificial Intelligence (AI). RPA automates repetitive tasks like data entry, while AI supports tasks like summarising transcription notes. Together, they can ease workloads, improve care, and enhance system efficiency.
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Fantastic Futures 2024 - Day 2 - Session 18
Emerging AI tools have seen use in recent years as a way to shortcut learning, potentially enabling students and teachers to customise lessons and overcome socio-economic and language barriers by providing on-demand access. Kara Kennedy offers a vision of what AI literacy looks like for librarians and their colleagues working in a low-resource educational environment servicing a high number of low-socioeconomic, multicultural customers.
From silence to signal: Nigerian women building digital pathways to justice
Over the past years, I have had the privilege of visiting communities and interacting with women across Nigerian states. During my most recent visit, between July and August this year, I toured Bauchi, Abuja, Lagos, Kano, Port Harcourt and Kaduna, where women are rewriting what connectivity means in their lives. Sitting with them in the community ICT hub, under the Trees and Learning Circle, I have seen how access to technology can become more than a technical matter; it can become a bridge to confidence, agency and solidarity.