ممارسات إدارة المعلومات الرقمية الشخصية للأطباء في وقت الأزمات : COVID-19 نموذجا

الملخص EN

The current study seeks to explore the practices of personal digital information management for doctors at the National Institute Hospital considering the Corona crisis in terms of collecting, organizing, and preserving personal digital information, methods of finding, maintaining, and archiving it, and the challenges of its administration.

The study was based on a semi-structured interview with (28) doctors from the National Liver Institute The study concluded with the participants’ consensus that managing personal digital information helps them work efficiently and effectively and supports their professional responsibilities in teaching, learning and health care during the crisis.

They stored the full text of personal digital information on their desktops and smart phones, and smart phones were the most used during the crisis.

The study revealed that it was forbidden to deal with paper sources of information, and the exchange of information between the administration and doctors was done by default, and the doctors had “difficulty in formulating appropriate search strategies for information while working in the isolation unit as a result of the psychological state and mood and the high level of stress they have from protective equipment, and the study recommended It is necessary to launch an educational training program by the university to erase the Digital illiteracy for doctors to enhance their skills in managing personal digital information (PDIM), and the need for the Egyptian Ministry of Health to adopt a public cloud that enables doctors to use it in storing, preserving, managing and sharing digital information during crises to raise the meaning for medical teams working in isolation units and ensure the smooth management of their personal digital information to ensure the provision of care Effective health for patients.