How An Infusion Of Tech Will Reverse The Worker Crisis

Because of this healthcare worker shortage, some US hospitals with patient populations dominated by the older, the sicker, and the inactive are even closing their doors. According to analyses conducted by Mercer and the Association of American Medical Colleges, by 2025 – the year the World Economic Forum predicts machines will do half of human workers' tasks, no less – healthcare will face a shortfall of more than 731,000 total jobs – including roles like doctors, surgeons, nursing assistants, nurse practitioners, lab technicians, and home health aides. Talk of robots replacing human doctors misses the point. When it comes down to it, even the most advanced AI tool is extremely limited, knowing a great deal about a very narrow area of knowledge – kind of like if someone could recite every work of Shakespeare from memory but didn't know Shakespeare's first name. Humans, in contrast, know a little bit about many different things – like if a doctor knew how to chop garlic, how to perform heart surgery, and how to write in iambic pentameter.