Internationally, the COVID-19 pandemic has put extreme stress on the healthcare workforce.  The World Health Organization (WHO) describes this as a ticking timebomb. Countries around the globe face severe challenges related to the healthcare workforce. The pandemic–combined with problems related to an ageing healthcare workforce, retirements, and burnout and stress from high workload, high work acuity and fast paced industry changes–has contributed to an ever-shrinking labor force (WHO, 2022). The industry is not expected to rebound soon, simply because there are not enough people with healthcare backgrounds applying for open positions. These workforce shortages and maldistribution also contribute heavily to emotional and mental health challenges in the healthcare workforce (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, ASPE Issue Brief, 2022).Transatlantic Telehealth Research Network (TTRN), in collaboration with the International Society for Telemedicine & eHealth and Aalborg University, invites you to the international scientific conference entitled: “An International Perspective on Building Capacity in Health Care through Technology” to be held at the University of California, in Berkeley, California, USA, on August 22-23, 2023. The conference is supported by the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society and the Banatao Institute (CITRIS). The conference is co-sponsored by the CITRIS and the Banatao Institute, and organized by the TTRN, CITRIS, UC Berkeley, the International Society for Telemedicine & eHealth, Aalborg University and Odense University Hospital.

Objectives:

• To present and share research on building capacity in health care through technology;
• To identify and communicate lessons learned about building capacity in health care through technology in an international context;
• To identify knowledge gaps for research around building capacity in health care through technology;
• To stimulate exchange of ideas across disciplines for the next steps of digital health and identify research collaboration;
• To give early career researchers within digital health the opportunity to present their work and expand their international network.

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