The world is running low on doctors, nurses and other healthcare providers. Even with the healthcare workforce expected to grow three times faster than the population, we’ll still need an additional 10 million clinicians by 2030, according to Jim Campbell, WHO’s director of health workforce.
In 2023, expect hospitals, tech firms and government agencies across the globe to band together to address this shortage in two key ways: by sharing the limited staffing resources on hand and by embracing new tech to provide for patients and train new healthcare workers.
“We have seen how leveraging technology - such as AI, digitization, and interoperability - addresses the labour shortages in the ecosystem by streamlining workflows, providing targeted and immediate triage and treatments, and empowering patients with chronic disease management tools, thereby allowing healthcare to scale from a technological and human resources perspective,” Ramesh Rajentheran, CEO and Founder of MiyaHealth told LinkedIn News.
In addition, the delivery of medical care can be effectively scaled up to manage larger patient populations.
Tech alone won’t solve this problem. One solution has been to recruit workers from abroad. Yet as concerns about health equity mount, expect a renewed focus on efforts to reduce the healthcare “brain drain” from low-income regions through a combination of education, recruitment and financial incentives, according to the WHO. — Beth Kutscher
Source: 10 Big Ideas that will change our world in 2023 | LinkedIn
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