Young healthcare workers want digital tech to improve work satisfaction: report

Professionals prefer portable ultrasound apps (35%) and chatbots (33%).

Younger healthcare professionals will need digital technologies to enhance work satisfaction to improve their diagnostic capacities, according to a Philips report.

The surveyed younger healthcare professionals said they want to see diagnostic capabilities from any location using a smartphone. For instance, " the use of a portable ultrasound app (35%), the use of chatbots to provide patients with answers to basic medical questions via an automated service (33%), and the portability of healthcare data between hospitals or practices (31%)."

Meanwhile, the Ministry of Health also predicted that as many as 24,000 additional allied health professionals and support care staff are needed to meet the demands of the country’s ageing population and to operate hospitals, clinics, and eldercare centres by 2030.

In terms of manpower, the survey also found that three in four (75%) healthcare leaders in Singapore (above the global average of 56%) say they already use, or plan to use, digital health technology to reduce the impact of healthcare workforce shortages.

The top three technologies identified to relieve the impact of staff shortages are cloud-based technology to support access to information from any location (53%), technology solutions that connect with out-of-hospital settings (40%), and workflow technology like digital health records and patient flow automation (33%).