What's on the horizon for the health care industry this year? Here's what you had to say
Welcome back to Path to Recovery, a newsletter that will bring you weekly conversations on how the health care profession will recover from one of the most significant crises of our time. Click "subscribe" above or follow along using #PathtoRecovery.
Here’s what we’re talking about this week.
#LinkedInTopVoices: Before we get started, I’d like to share (and congratulate!) our annual list of Top Voices in Health Care, 15 clinicians who are on the pulse of today’s top-of-mind issues — and building conversation and community around the biggest challenges facing the industry. If you’re looking for health care content, these are this year’s must-know individuals who are covering issues from digital health to burnout.
#Healthcarein2022: In other news, a more muted JP Morgan Healthcare Conference kicked off virtually for the second year in a row. While there wasn’t any of the blockbuster M&A that investors were hoping for, there was plenty to watch on the covid front.
I also asked you to weigh in with your predictions on what the coming year might bring. Here are some of the highlights (click on the posts below to comment directly.) You can also find more insights by searching for #Healthcarein2022 on LinkedIn. Feel free to add your own!
Health care employers will need to address employee burnout in a big way:
Clinicians will increasingly have a seat the table:
Digital health investment will remain strong:
Telehealth 2.0 will help solve some of the most pressing workforce issues:
Leaders will need to figure out how to “channel the wind” if they want to keep employees:
Private equity investment and lifestyle issues will continue to spur practice consolidation in fields like optometry:
Published Writer and Retired Registered Nurse
2yThe upheaval that's coming? The upheaval is here! Our medical professionals decided to jump into bed with the politicians, and now the healthcare system is a mess. The basics of healthcare are timeless. They never change. It's the people at the top who mess things up.
CEO at Axuall
2yWhile we were not able to gather at #JPMhealthcare this year due to omicron, this new variant continues to highlight an often-overshadowed supply chain challenge that's in some ways worse than the PPE and drug shortages we have become familiar with: a growing workforce shortage. To truly tackle this challenge head-on for #Healthcarein2022, it's crucial we begin applying data to the clinician workforce so that providers can easily collect information related to a practitioner's credentials, skills, capabilities, utilization factors, and placement potential (which has generally been scattered across hundreds of sources and rarely updated). Only by streamlining this outdated process can healthcare leaders analyze and plan their employee staffing accordingly, quickly deploy resources where needed, and meet credentialing and privileging regulations all at the same time.
Physical Therapist / Small Business Wingman / Strategic Planning Consultant - "Get your head out of that box!"
2yThe burnout revolution is real… Many healthcare workers are frontline workers; there is no virtual option. They are seeing their administrative colleagues choose the work from home option and, for many clinical workers, this is simply not an option. Healthcare workers need to be where the patients are. Yes, telehealth is allowing some conditions to be treated virtually but the numbers I have seen suggest that it is only around 3% of the existing visits. Telehealth is not a growth modality. Telehealth is simply swapping out existing visits and making those visits virtual. However, that means that for 97% of healthcare workers they have to go to work each day. And, there is some resentment there. We are seeing it in some of our small businesses; clinicians are voting with their feet and looking for different options if the current job isn’t answering all their needs. 2022 is going to be a transitional year. It will be a time for a change. #2022 #healthcare #burnout #jobseekers #frontlineworkers #clinician #virtualhealth