The following gives you a closer look at five of the most
troubling challenges.
Talent Shortage
There already is a shortage of medical professionals and support
staff to provide quality healthcare services. Demand is continuing to rise,
which is creating an even larger gap in the available number of qualified
healthcare professionals and staff.
Officials with health insurer Prudential say 90 percent of
hospital executives expect increasing shortages of doctors, specialists, and
nurses. They also expect an increasing shortage of healthcare clinicians and
technicians. Samuel Siebu says it all adds up to a greater demand for fewer
qualified and experienced healthcare service providers.
Training Difficulties
The rising demand for healthcare services is outpacing the
ability to educate and train new healthcare professionals and support staff.
The cost of education is a severe barrier for many potential healthcare
professionals.
Hospitals and other healthcare service providers are short-staffed
and having trouble training new staff. The cost of education and training
complicates the problem.
Exhaustion Among Current Staff
Short-staffed hospitals and other medical services facilities
are putting greater demand on their current doctors, nurses, and staff. Those
increased demands mean longer hours, fewer days off, and increased exhaustion.
Samuel Siebu says an overworked and exhausted
medical services provider is prone to making mistakes. Ultimately, the best
solution is to hire more qualified staff, but the shortage of available
candidates for employment makes that a very difficult task and a virtually
unobtainable goal at this point in time.
Difficulty Retaining Employees
A shortage of medical professionals adds up to a lot of demand
for experienced and skilled medical professionals. Many medical professionals
will start at one hospital or other healthcare service provider and leave for
others when more lucrative and career-oriented opportunities arise.
Adopting New Healthcare
Technology
Samuel Siebu says newer healthcare technology can help to alleviate the
shortage of available doctors, nurses, and staff. New healthcare technology
that uses artificial intelligence (AI) is especially promising at helping to
provide patients with faster diagnoses and treatment plans.
Unfortunately, new technology requires costly investment and
time spent training staff how to use it. AI-based technologies might help to
fulfill services that currently are understaffed and offset operating costs
that otherwise would be required to provide the same service in person.
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