Measuring digital practice across a heterogeneous clinical workforce: a task-level, profession-stratified survey of digital work by allied health professionals

Objectives: Digital practice is usually measured with generic self-rated instruments, and UK reporting treats the fourteen allied health professions (AHPs) as one category. We asked what task-level, profession-stratified measurement reveals that aggregation may conceal. Design: Exploratory cross-sectional census-frame survey using the AHP Digital Practice Inventory, a provisional 56-task, nine-domain instrument anchored to named electronic health record (EHR) tasks. Setting: An English specialist cancer centre with one organisation-wide EHR. Participants: Of 355 AHPs in the census frame, 131 (

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