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Employer Quotes
The quotes below are from employers in this industry: Health Care
They are talking about this topic: Industry Trends
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Employees constantly need to adapt to rapidly changing technology, including medical devices and electronic medical records. For this reason, the need for IT skills has increased. Technology is also changing the delivery of care, and many employers predict a movement to telemedicine and electronic visits, also known as e-visits.
| "Yeah, five to eight years from now—I mean, right now, we've got about 2,000 lab tests. And the physician providers probably know about 100 of those really well. And now we're moving closer to 5,000 different lab tests out there with all the different types of genetic testing and molecular testing. So, the laboratory will take more of a collaborative role with the care team to determine what the appropriate lab test is for the diagnostic situation. It's really going to move in that direction just because of all of the advances in laboratory testing. Question: You're going from 2,000 to 5,000 different lab tests? Employer: It's reported that we have as many as 5,000 out there right now. And in this day, with the internet, patients are going online and looking up lab tests and saying, 'I want this one.'" |
Metro |
| "Another industry trend, some clinics are still paper-based, but there's a push towards electronic medical records. And now, there's even a push that wherever you go, no matter which institution, wherever you receive care as a patient, that your medical record follows you, so that we can have easy exchange of this health information." | Metro |
| "I think part of the challenge is that—with things changing so fast and technology changing so fast—you could create a program today that could be stale in a year. So, this is a fundamental challenge. The whole thing in health care is how fast things are changing, and what we're asking health care workers to do in regard to the changing environment around them." | Metro |
| "Just like the workers have to adjust to the ever-changing environment, I would guess that people who graduated from nursing school with their degree even eight years ago, it's radically different—or from lab or whatever it is. Everything becomes old school in a matter of months." | Metro |