Nurses' and physicians' perceptions of the impact of eHealth and information systems on the roles of health care professionals: A qualitative descriptive study.

The increased use of eHealth and information systems impacts health care work broadly, including cultural and social aspects of work such as the roles of health care professionals. This qualitative descriptive study examined the perceptions of health care professionals in terms of how eHealth and information systems have changed their roles. The data was collected via 15 semi-structured thematic interviews and analysed using content analysis with an inductive approach.

How to Implement Digital Services in a Way That They Integrate Into Routine Work: Qualitative Interview Study Among Health and Social Care Professionals.

Background: Although the COVID-19 pandemic has significantly boosted the implementation of digital services worldwide, it has become increasingly important to understand how these solutions are integrated into professionals' routine work. Professionals who are using the services are key influencers in the success of implementations. To ensure successful implementations, it is important to understand the multiprofessional perspective, especially because implementations are likely to increase even more.

Building Primary Health Care Personnel's Support for a Patient Portal While Alleviating eHealth-Related Stress: Survey Study.

Background: Health care personnel's (HCP) engagement in patient portal implementation is necessary in embedding the use of the portal in everyday practices of a health care organization. While portal implementation may raise personnel's positive expectations of the benefits in patient care, it is often also stressful for them due to increased workloads and disruptions in clinical workflows. An understanding of social and technical factors that build personnel's support for patient portal implementation and alleviate their eHealth-related stress is therefore needed to realize the full potential of portals.

Clinical Leaders' Self-Perceived eHealth Competencies in the Implementation of New eHealth Services.

The training and competence of healthcare professionals are key factors in adopting new eHealth services. The scope of eHealth is broadening from information systems to eHealth services such as patient portals supporting self-management, which create a need for new competencies. In this study, we evaluated clinical leaders' eHealth competencies and training needs in two public healthcare organizations in Finland.

Health Professionals' Expanding eHealth Competences for Supporting Patients' Self-Management.

An increasing number of new eHealth services that support patients' self-management has changed health professionals' work and has created a need for a new eHealth competence. In this study, we evaluated the health professionals' eHealth competences and training needs in a public health organization in Finland. The target organization's goal was to increase the number of eHealth services provided to patients, and health professionals and their competences were seen as critical for the adoption of services.