Automation to Replace Healthcare Sector Staffing

The Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) has issued a report indicating the top sectors likely to be replaced by technology by 2025, and healthcare has made the list.

"Health is an especially significant area likely to be impacted, through automation in clinical data and predictive diagnostics (analysis roles), to robotics assisting in areas from surgery to nursing and from hospital logistics to pharmaceutical dispensary," the report said.

CEDA chief executive Professor Stephen Martin uses the report as further evidence that the world is headed towards its next industrial revolution; this time driven by technology and affecting all levels of workers including manual, analytical and now even those with skills requiring mobility and dexterity.

Professor Martin also emphasised the need for governments to shape long-term workplace policy around technology changes, lest the country be left behind in this era of globalisation.