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An information resources management consultant and health information management specialist. A trainer, counsellor and life coach
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Health information management : journal of the Health Information Management Association of Australia, Jan 20, 2018
Healthcare professionals are obliged to work collaboratively regardless of their professional dif... more Healthcare professionals are obliged to work collaboratively regardless of their professional differences in order to provide the highest possible standard of care to patients. However, this type of collaboration can also lead to role substitution and, in effect, engagement of unqualified personnel in all health professions, including the health information management profession. This is a particular problem in developing nations such as Nigeria, where this trend has the potential to undermine the delivery of health services, the quality and the confidentiality of health information and trust between patients and healthcare professionals. To clarify and protect the professional identity of qualified health information management professionals in Nigeria and to prevent other experts who also work in health facilities (e.g. IT specialists, librarians) from claiming membership of the profession, the nomenclature for the health information management profession has been changed to healt...
The HIM journal, Jan 31, 2014
There is a lack of effective health information management systems in Nigeria due to the prevalen... more There is a lack of effective health information management systems in Nigeria due to the prevalence of cumbersome paper-based and disjointed health data management systems. This can make informed healthcare decision making difficult. This study examined the information technology (IT) skills, utilisation and training needs of Nigerian health information management professionals. We deployed a cross-sectional structured questionnaire to determine the IT skills and training needs of health information management professionals who have leadership roles in the nation's healthcare information systems (n=374). It was found that ownership of a computer, level of education and age were associated with knowledge and perception of IT. The vast majority of participants (98.8%) acknowledged the importance and relevance of IT in healthcare information systems and many expressed a desire for further IT training, especially in statistical analysis. Despite this, few (8.1 %) worked in settings where such systems operate and there exists an IT skill gap among these professionals which is not compatible with their roles in healthcare information systems. To rectify this anomaly they require continuing professional development education, especially in the areas of health IT. Government intervention in the provision of IT infrastructure in order to put into practice a computerised healthcare information system would therefore be a worthwhile undertaking.
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Career progression is a serious business in any organisation. This is chiefly achieved via mentor... more Career progression is a serious business in any organisation. This is chiefly achieved via mentoring programmes which benefit the mentor, mentee and the organisation. Mentoring bridges the gap that might exist between the professional on the field who is being referred to as a mentor and the newly employed worker known as mentee, who is aspiring to become an expert. However, both the mentor and mentee have varied expectations and obligations towards successful mentoring. While the expectations and obligations of a mentor are: inclination to share knowledge, expertise and skills; act as a positive and progressive role model by exhibiting an optimistic and progressive assertiveness and approaches; attach personal attention and curiosity to mentoring relationship, demonstrations of professional zeal on the field; values current knowledge and development in the field; offer of supervision and productive feedback to the mentee; command respect from contemporaries and other workforces within the organization, the mentee are obliged and expected to make arrangements and preparations for discussions, possession of attitudinal flexibility, understand the mentor's schedule, making necessary enquiries from the mentor, self-understanding, allow the mentor to lead, request for feedback, expression of appreciation to the mentor and allow the mentoring interaction to be purely professional. The study concluded that if the highlighted obligations and expectations of the both mentor and mentee are met, mentoring programme will be fruitful and eventually lead to career growth and development
Health information management : journal of the Health Information Management Association of Australia, Jan 20, 2018
Healthcare professionals are obliged to work collaboratively regardless of their professional dif... more Healthcare professionals are obliged to work collaboratively regardless of their professional differences in order to provide the highest possible standard of care to patients. However, this type of collaboration can also lead to role substitution and, in effect, engagement of unqualified personnel in all health professions, including the health information management profession. This is a particular problem in developing nations such as Nigeria, where this trend has the potential to undermine the delivery of health services, the quality and the confidentiality of health information and trust between patients and healthcare professionals. To clarify and protect the professional identity of qualified health information management professionals in Nigeria and to prevent other experts who also work in health facilities (e.g. IT specialists, librarians) from claiming membership of the profession, the nomenclature for the health information management profession has been changed to healt...
The HIM journal, Jan 31, 2014
There is a lack of effective health information management systems in Nigeria due to the prevalen... more There is a lack of effective health information management systems in Nigeria due to the prevalence of cumbersome paper-based and disjointed health data management systems. This can make informed healthcare decision making difficult. This study examined the information technology (IT) skills, utilisation and training needs of Nigerian health information management professionals. We deployed a cross-sectional structured questionnaire to determine the IT skills and training needs of health information management professionals who have leadership roles in the nation's healthcare information systems (n=374). It was found that ownership of a computer, level of education and age were associated with knowledge and perception of IT. The vast majority of participants (98.8%) acknowledged the importance and relevance of IT in healthcare information systems and many expressed a desire for further IT training, especially in statistical analysis. Despite this, few (8.1 %) worked in settings where such systems operate and there exists an IT skill gap among these professionals which is not compatible with their roles in healthcare information systems. To rectify this anomaly they require continuing professional development education, especially in the areas of health IT. Government intervention in the provision of IT infrastructure in order to put into practice a computerised healthcare information system would therefore be a worthwhile undertaking.
Career progression is a serious business in any organisation. This is chiefly achieved via mentor... more Career progression is a serious business in any organisation. This is chiefly achieved via mentoring programmes which benefit the mentor, mentee and the organisation. Mentoring bridges the gap that might exist between the professional on the field who is being referred to as a mentor and the newly employed worker known as mentee, who is aspiring to become an expert. However, both the mentor and mentee have varied expectations and obligations towards successful mentoring. While the expectations and obligations of a mentor are: inclination to share knowledge, expertise and skills; act as a positive and progressive role model by exhibiting an optimistic and progressive assertiveness and approaches; attach personal attention and curiosity to mentoring relationship, demonstrations of professional zeal on the field; values current knowledge and development in the field; offer of supervision and productive feedback to the mentee; command respect from contemporaries and other workforces within the organization, the mentee are obliged and expected to make arrangements and preparations for discussions, possession of attitudinal flexibility, understand the mentor's schedule, making necessary enquiries from the mentor, self-understanding, allow the mentor to lead, request for feedback, expression of appreciation to the mentor and allow the mentoring interaction to be purely professional. The study concluded that if the highlighted obligations and expectations of the both mentor and mentee are met, mentoring programme will be fruitful and eventually lead to career growth and development