The role of Semantics and ICT educational standards in developing IT skills for Healthcare workforce

IT skills and competences of the healthcare workforce are central to the dialogue and the collaboration between EU and USA for enhancing healthcare. The “Memorandum of Understanding between EU and US” (2010) and the “Transatlantic eHealth/health IT Cooperation Roadmap” aim to build a common framework between EU and US for skilled eHealth/health IT workforce and eHealth proficiencies. The EU co-funded CAMEI coordination action (Coordination Actions in the scientific era of Medical Education Informatics for fostering IT skills for healthcare workforce in the EU and USA” - http://www.camei-project.eu) kicked off in 2013 and aims to contribute towards this aim. In this context, we investigate the role of the ICT educational standards towards open interoperability in education. To this extent, the use of semantic technologies in education could be further utilised enabling a better understanding of knowledge–based learning through learning analytics. Could these educational advancements lead to an online personalised learning experience covering the individual needs on IT skills and competences of the learner?