The Topol Review: Preparing Healthcare Staff to Deliver the Digital Future

Led by Dr. Eric Topol, a cardiologist, geneticist and researcher in digital medicine, The Topol Review explores how to prepare health personnel, through education and training, to ensure the digital future.

The Topol magazine makes recommendations that will enable NHS staff to make the most of innovative technologies such as genomics, digital medicine, artificial intelligence and robotics to improve services. These recommendations are in line with the objectives of the NHS Long Term Plan and the Workforce Implementation Plan, thus contributing to the sustainability of the NHS.

The magazine advises on:

• How technological and other developments (including genomics, artificial intelligence, digital medicine and robotics) are likely to change the roles and functions of clinical staff in all professions over the next two decades to ensure safer, more productive, more efficient and more personal care patients
• What are the implications of these changes for the skills required by the professionals who badume these roles, identifying occupations or sub-specialties where these can be particularly significant?
• The implications for selection, programs, education, training, development and lifelong learning of current and future staff of the National Health Service.

Harry Evans, a researcher at the King & # 39; s Fund, commented on the Topol Review on technology and healthcare workers: "Technology underpins some of the most ambitious goals of the NHS Long Term Plan. It is therefore vital that staff can use digital. tools and understand the data they generate. Topol magazine makes a number of welcome recommendations aimed at creating a digital workforce capable of mastering digital technology with the knowledge and flexibility needed to embrace emerging technologies.

"At a time when people have never been as busy as possible, technology has an important role to play in making life easier for nurses, doctors and other overworked staff, allowing them to focus on patient support. . In addition to training staff in the use of technology, new systems must be designed to reduce the daily pressures faced by NHS workers. "