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Healthcare's digital skills gap: why existing competency tools aren't built for the full workforce
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Fusion42 · 19 July 2026 · Fusion42 review
Two peer-reviewed studies reveal that existing digital health competency assessment tools are inadequate for enterprise-wide deployment: 71% of 20 tools examined were designed only for nurses, and only two meet validity standards across interprofessional teams. Health systems deploying EHRs, AI diagnostics, and remote monitoring lack validated measurement instruments to establish baseline capability before go-live.
This Wire brief sits within Fusion42's coverage of Digital Health, Healthtech Infrastructure and Enterprise Software.
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If you sell digital health platforms or workforce training to hospitals, your customer is flying blind: they cannot measure whether their radiologists, pharmacists, and care coordinators can actually use your tool safely before go-live, because no validated assessment covers them all. That's a procurement and liability problem you can solve by building or licensing one of the two tools that work.
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