The Challenges of Technology in Health from the perspective of Nursing and Midwifery Faculty Members and Information Technology Experts

Technology in medical education is a little-known issue that needs to be used more quickly. In this regard, researchers need to explain the challenges of this issue more and with better quality. The current research has been carried out with the main purpose of identifying the current and desirable situation of the use of information technology in medical education and the challenges facing it from the point of view of the professors and personnel of Birjand University of Medical Sciences.

This study was conducted using a qualitative method, with semi-structured interviews, in order to categorize the challenges and obstacles of the use of new technologies in health in 1402. 17 of them were selected by purposeful sampling. Interviews were written, coded, and classified.

the challenges of using health technology in the university in two categories "insufficient support and "technology challenge" and sub-categories "decreasing motivation to use new educational methods based on technology, avoiding technology, not providing new educational platforms, high costs, and insufficient support They were placed.

Providing infrastructures, getting to know more personnel and providing appropriate educational assistance for practical ideas and teaching user-friendly technology programs can greatly help to solve the challenges of modern technologies in the field of medical sciences and health in medical sciences universities.