Fred Ezeh, Abuja

Health Record Officers Registration Board of Nigeria (HRORBN) has asked its members to widen their learning capacity to accommodate new knowledge relevant for 21st century workplace.

The board admitted that operational systems have continue to change with advancement in modern technology, thus advocating minor changes in the training manual for undergraduate and postgraduate students to accommodate new 21st century demands.
Its registrar, Ibrahim Mohammed, told participants at a retreat to discuss the repackaged manual for training of health information officers in Abuja, that no health officer will function effectively without good knowledge of technology.

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He said: “For five decades, health record management has been driven by brain, paper and pen. Undoubtedly, we did well with that system. But new changes have emerged and we have no choice but to live up to the realities by appreciating obvious advances in technology.
“Its application to information processing and management has important implications to the mode that we hitherto used in health information management.

“The implication is the critical need for the retraining of practitioners and reorienting the training architecture of future licensees that would harm them with competencies for effective practice in the 21st century technology driven world.”

He told them that the objective of the retreat was to address the proposed strategy for the review of the teaching methods of the courses at training institutions, with the view to be appropriately aligned with the goals, objectives and learning outcomes of the revised curriculum.
This, he added, was in appreciation of the successful implementation of revised curriculum depends on strengthened lecturer development programmes.