Working as an Allied Health Informatician

Abstract

Allied health professionals are fast recognising the need to adopt digital health technologies in their service delivery models. Reasons driving this need include greater digitisation of healthcare systems, such as electronic medical records, and pressures on healthcare systems to rapidly deploy digital models of care, such as telehealth consultations. Despite a growing need to support the digital allied health workforce, there has been much volatility in formal educational opportunities, career development pathways, and leadership roles. The future of allied health informatics faces challenges, including its heterogeneity of professions, siloed tools and technologies, and ongoing issues sur..