IntroductionDigitalization of society and the workplace brings new challenges and changes in how we work and learn. Like in other domains, healthcare has seen rapid growth in new digital technologies, extending beyond an initial focus on electronic patient record systems (Fitzpatrick and Ellingsen 2013; LeRouge et al. 2007). The digital transformation of healthcare entails changes in the IT environment and affects the health professionals’ daily clinical work. It includes changes that require learning and the development of new working methods. The rise of data -driven healthcare, patient-centric technologies and advances in automatized systems, artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics altogether poses new challenges and opportunities for the medical profession (Lebovitz et al. 2019; Vallo Hult et al. 2019). Conventional health IS research and models have focused on isolated systems, individual usersand clinical outcomes (Greenhalgh et al. 2019), focusing more on design and implementation than on how clinical end users react to already implemented IT (Abouzahra et al. 2015; Holden and Karsh 2010). Prior research highlight that learning in everyday work needs to be better integrated with digital transformation to achieve the full potential of digitalization. (Sittig and Singh 2010; Vallo Hult et al. 2020). The challenges, thus, are complex and sociotechnical, which calls for a better understanding of existing practices and new competencies required in response to current changes associated with digitalization (Davidson et al. 2018; Wynn and Vallo Hult 2020).

While researchers and practitioners have shown a longstanding interest in understanding the relationship between digitalization and learning at work, much of this work has been conducted in separate streams of literature. There is still a lack of understanding key terminology and concepts, as different terms are used in the literature to describe similar phenomena (Vallo Hult 2021). Experiences from our studies in practice, where the development, implementation, and use of digital technologies involve key activities associated with learning (Svensson and Vallo Hult, 2022), furthermore point to a need for an overview and more insights into this area. This extended abstract presents the first step in an ongoing project in which we plan to conduct an integrative literature review on workplace learning and digital transformation in healthcare, responding to calls for more research that explicitly addresses digital change as learning (Vallo Hult et al. 2022). The research question is twofold: i) how has workplace learning in healthcare digital transformation been addressed in the literature and ii) what key topics and themes, and central ideas and authors that have influenced and shaped the development can be identified?

Method

The literature review will focus on research relevant to workplace learning and digital transformation in healthcare. A targeted search will be conducted in the multidisciplinary research databases Scopus and Web of Science, as primary databases for multidisciplinary coverage of international academic journals. Additionally, we will conduct a systematic literature search in PubMed, to include relevant articles in the medical field. We plan on using a concept-centric approach to literature reviews, aiming to identify and follow key concepts in the literature (Webster and Watson 2002). We will also use snowballing and citation analysis techniques (forward and backward tracking of references) to allow for refinement of the initial searches based on new ideas, search terms and literature (cf. Boell and Cecez-Kecmanovic 2014).

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For further analysis, relevant references will be exported to EndNote (reference management system). Inclusion and exclusion criteria will be applied to narrow the results (peer-reviewed articles, conference papers or book chapters in English). Articles will be categorized based on author(s) and year of publication, publication outlet, document type and domain, main findings and call for future research. Workplace learning in healthcare digital transformation: Tentative findings, discussion and expected co ntributionAs the research has developed in separate streams of research, we expect the literature review to reveal how key concepts have been applied and defined in prior literature, over time and across disciplines. The result section will present synthesized topics and themes and identified central ideas and authors that have influenced and shaped the development of digital transformation in relation to workplace learning in healthcare. The result section will be structured in three themes: i) a summary of definitions and concepts, ii) key findings focusing on workplace learning in digital healthcare in specific and iii) the knowledge gap on workplace learning in digital healthcare. Our empirical research indicate that this literature review has potential to contribute with a better understanding and more in-depth insights into learning in healthcare digital transformation.