This document discusses the potential impacts of automation on healthcare employment and discusses alternative views beyond job loss. It notes that automation may lead to reconfiguring of healthcare work rather than outright job loss. Examples of existing technologies that have automated tasks in healthcare like pharmacy automation and emerging technologies like decision support systems and personal health tracking are provided. The document advocates that automation could lead to a virtuous cycle in healthcare if it allows workers to focus on tasks that require human skills and judgment.

1. Automation, Employment, and Health Care
Can there be a virtuous cycle?
Eric T. Meyer
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2. Automation
The Standard View

4. Robot nurses?
RIBA (Robot for Interactive Body Assistance)
Source: http://rtc.nagoya.riken.jp/RIBA/index-e.html

5. Source: https://www.tesla.com

6. Frey, Carl Benedikt and Osborne, Michael A. (2013). The Future of Employment: How susceptible are jobs to computerisation? Oxford Martin School. Oxford. Retrieved from
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7. Frey, Carl Benedikt and Osborne, Michael A. (2013). The Future of Employment: How susceptible are jobs to computerisation? Oxford Martin School. Oxford. Retrieved from
http://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/publications/view/1314

8. Automation
Alternative Views

9. Potentially less about loss of jobs than about
reconfiguring
healthcare work

10. Existing Tech: Pharmacy Automation

11. Emerging Tech: Decision Support Systems
Olga Kostopoulou et al. Br J Gen Pract 2017;67:e201-e208 ©2017 by British Journal of General Practice

12. Task Tech: Letters, coding, and other document work
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13. Evolving Tech: Personal Health Tracking & Linking

14. The Future of Healthcare
Computerisation and Automation in Primary Care
http://healthautomation.oii.ox.ac.uk/
Dr Matt Willis
+Ethnographic Work in
General Practice
Economic Data and
Machine Learning
Dr Carl Frey Prof Mike
Osborne
Dr Angela
Coulter
Prof Eric
Meyer