Technology solutions are implemented throughout Europe to support the workforce of health care in adapting to advanced advanced health care systems. Digital sanitary ware, artificial intelligence and innovative care models redefine roles and workflow – driven by escalating pressures that make the transformation necessary.
Care needs factors
According to the European Commission, by 2050, it is expected that individuals between the ages of 55 years or more than 40 % of the European population will increase from 25 % in 2019. It is also expected that the prevalence of chronic conditions will increase in the coming years. All of this means that there is a need for a qualified working force to take care of this group of the population, especially in specializations such as aging, internal medicine and nursing. But at the same time, According to the European Union CommissionNearly half of the European Union countries recorded a share of more than 40.0 % for practicing doctors between 55 years or older. The average age of the nursing workforce is also increasing in some countries, the most prominent of which was in Lithuania, where more than half (51.5 %) of all nurses were practices in 2022 ranging from 55 years or more. A deficiency of the workforce is already and will increase in the coming years, especially in rural and low -service areas.
It is aware that doing the same thing with more people will not save health care, new care models are designed and implemented. The concept of the liquid hospital will continue, as decentralization is outside the hospital and moved to the house whenever possible, to grow. We will need adaptable professionals and coaches to attend patients from a distance, through distance medicine, and from a distance monitoring and in their homes. This may also require patient care exercises.
Differences of the workforce throughout Europe
The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates an expected deficiency of 11 million health workers by 2030, most of them in low -income countries. We can expect a great contrast across Europe, affected by politics, economic development, digital maturity and demographic educational files:
- Northern and Western Europe leads the road with the adoption of health and digital investment in new technologies, as well as the restoration of tasks between professionals, which gives the nurses a better and more attractive position.
- Southern Europe is slower in adopting digital health due to budget restrictions.
- Eastern Europe believes that its working power migrates to Western Europe, especially because of the identification of the situation and the gap in the digital infrastructure.
Good and bad technology in health care
Technology -based solutions such as artificial intelligence, robots and virtual reality are gradually combined in health care systems to enhance diagnoses, take clinical decisions and patient care. The effective benefit from health care data – through assembly, interpretation and accurate application – will be necessary for the progress of diagnosis, enabling personal treatments and driving research.
But the road is still rugged. “In the past, we have dictated our notes on the tape, and those with medical trustees who knew us and our field of copying them well,” said Cecil Higdal, head of the Department of Obstetrics at the University of Oslo Hospital. “Now we use speech recognition, which is copying our dictation in the actual time.
“However, technology continues to make many mistakes-whether typographical and content, or sometimes the opposite of the intended meaning-where we have to spend a great time to correct it after that,” said Ospand. “As a result, the process takes more time than before.”
The generations are far from sacrificing life in medicine
There are also expectations for the new generation regarding how they want to reach health care and consumption as a patient and also in the working conditions they want as a professional in the future health care.
“As a medical student, I was always excited about surgery. However, it was the only time I started wondering if I really wanted to become a surgeon-or even a doctor-after attending a lecture by a famous 80-year-old at the University of Sorbon University at Sorbon University,”. “During questions and answers, I asked him how he managed to achieve a balance between his specialization with the family life. His response was moving deeply: he broke into crying, and his voice was trembling while talking about all the school plays and the recitation he lost while dedicating it in the field of medicine in many cases. To abandon this invitation.”
How can we prepare the workforce for health care for these challenges?
All innovations and developments require training and continuous education, so the workforce knows how to use technology -based tools and understand their benefits for them and their illnesses.
It also requires adaptation and creation of new curricula to expand health care professionals’ knowledge of topics such as digital literacy, data management, a remote doctor, careful medicine and cybersecurity, as well as to build soft skills such as flexibility, adaptation and moral decision -making.
Solutions have already appeared to compensate for a lack of healthcare professionals, especially in rural and low -service areas. For example, a few weeks ago, SNCF, the French Railways Company, launched the first remote service at the railway station near Paris. It plans to launch about 300 points remotely at railway stations by 2028.
Cecil Higdel Uvand and Yunus Olmour will speak at Himss25 Eurobe, in the future of the path operating on June 12. Look Complete conference program He joined us in Paris.
