Automation, Employment, and Health Care

Can there be a virtuous cycle?

Eric T. Meyer Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford | Professor of Social Informatics & Director of Graduate Studies The Alan Turing Institute | Faculty Fellow

http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/eric-meyer

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Automation The Standard View

Robot nurses? RIBA (Robot for Interactive Body Assistance)

Source: http://rtc.nagoya.riken.jp/RIBA/index-e.html

Source: https://www.tesla.com

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

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

Automation Alternative Views

Potentially less about loss of jobs than about

reconfiguring

healthcare work

Existing Tech: Pharmacy Automation

Emerging Tech: Decision Support Systems

Olga Kostopoulou et al. Br J Gen Pract 2017;67:e201-e208 ©2017 by British Journal of General Practice

Task Tech: Letters, coding, and other document work

Image source: http://www.docman.com

Evolving Tech: Personal Health Tracking & Linking

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