Home Health Care News June 2, 2021
An Oxford University study in 2013 told everyone what we’d all been wondering: Will a robot one day take my job? The report — “The Future of Employment: How Susceptible are Jobs to Computerisation?” — offered its ranking of 702 jobs and careers based on how easily they could be automated.
Not surprisingly, the home-based care sector fared pretty well, as therapists, social workers and mental health professionals made up 40% of the top 10 safest jobs.
That does not mean that robotics and automation have no place in home-based care. The contrary. Robot process automation, or RPA, is software that uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to automate a variety of menial, repetitive tasks that otherwise fall on clinicians....