ArticleBMC medical education2025
The role of medical regulations and medical regulators in fostering the use of eHealth data for strengthened continuing professional development (CPD): a document analysis with key informants' interviews.
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- Data in Diabetic Foot Care: From Current State to a Management Framework for Implementation.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Review
- Integrating eHealth data analytics into Continuing Professional Development for medical practitioners: an ecosystemic perspective.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Article
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Abstract
backgroundIn recent times, medical regulators have been taking measures to strengthen CPD requirements for medical practitioners. In particular, greater emphasis has been placed on CPD activities linked to workplace-based assessment, health outcomes measurement, and quality improvement. These activities require the use of health data, and eHealth data analytics is emerging as a digital solution to simplify tasks and processes. Although there is a growing interest and need for alignment between regulatory policies, impactful CPD activities, and digital health research and innovation, there is little or no research into the role that medical regulations and regulators are playing in fostering the use of eHealth data to strengthen CPD.
methodsMedical regulations and CPD requirements of 5 selected countries (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, UK, USA) were collected and analysed using the systematic READ approach for qualitative health policy research. Online semi-structured interviews were conducted with 20 key informants from 13 medical bodies to validate findings and gather additional insights. Informants were purposively selected because of their direct involvement in policy development. The interviews were analysed using a hybrid approach of deductive and inductive thematic analysis. The COREQ checklist was used for reporting the findings.
resultsThe documents analysed do not mention the use of eHealth data for CPD purposes or refer to it only as a potential data source for CPD completion and compliance. Participants corroborated the document analysis results and provided insights into the following themes: context and rationale of current policy choices and future policy development; roles, responsibilities, and functions of relevant medical bodies in fostering the use of eHealth data for strengthened CPD; barriers, challenges, and enablers for implementation.
conclusionCurrent medical regulations and CPD requirements do not foster the use of eHealth data for CPD purposes. Recommendations for future policy development are reliant on further research on key policy concepts, regulators' internal organisational factors, and interorganisational collaboration within the CPD ecosystem. The alignment of all relevant CPD stakeholders is required to tackle existing barriers and challenges and promote digital health innovation in the CPD landscape. Medical regulators are called to play a leadership role in this scenario.
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