Advancing Digital Literacy in Healthcare
Dr. Noya Shiloh addressed the challenge of enhancing technological literacy across a diverse healthcare workforce with varying ages, experiences, and educational backgrounds. She emphasized the importance of reducing administrative burdens and designing intuitive technological tools that seamlessly integrate into healthcare workflows. “Technological literacy and data literacy are so hard to acquire… our job is to make technological tools, as user-friendly as possible.” By simplifying technology, the goal is to facilitate easier adoption without extensive training, thus enhancing efficiency.
Creating Sustainable Career Paths
Dr. Jeffrey Golden discussed the dual challenges posed by an aging workforce and the transient nature of younger generations like Gen Z and Gen X. He suggested that “We really need to think about how we evolve positions that people see as a lifetime position, a career that they’re going to be able to advance in over time.” He also focused on the necessity of integrating various roles within healthcare teams, and avocated for the efficient integration of data specialists into healthcare teams to ensure that everyone works at the peak of their abilities and avoids tasks that could be handled by others, optimizing job functions within the healthcare system.
Dr. Gary Kaplan sumarized this part of the panel emphasizing the urgency of developing more effective retention strategies; “One of the most expensive things we do is invest in people, hiring them, training them, a 20% first-year turnover rate is really not sustainable.”