our own system
Hi there, I'm Drew Weilage and I'm working to make healthcare better for patients.
This is a blog with links to healthcare goings on, trends, and uncategorized interestingness as well as attempts to filter my own healthcare thinking through essay.
I am greatly aware of my idealistic, naive even, views on a number of topics. But frankly, I think healthcare is in dire need of more of the "what's possible/what could be" type of thinking. I'm greatly protective of my unabashed idealism but always open to reason and discourse about any of it.
This is round two of my blogging life, the first being archived here.
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Healthcare (knowledge) worker shortage
Wired tells us that Toyota is trying to build nurse robots. The problem, as we face to a lesser extent in the U.S., is Japan’s aging population and low birth rate resulting in a shortage of nurses. The company is working on building robots to take care of the elderly inside the hospital and out.
Nursing shortage solved, let’s move onto the next one: knowledge workers. Nine Shift writes:
By 2015 we will have a shortage of 14 million knowledge workers, and society will be desperate for college educated professionals.
We’ll have nurse robots but no one to watch over them. Feels very sci-fi.
Joking aside, talent makes the world go round. And a lack of it will be problematic for healthcare, too. Especially as we transition from (more) intervention care to relationship care (wellness support, lifestyle changes, etc.).
