SPI Medical Imaging: Mitigating the Workforce Shortage in Medical Imaging

Healthcare providers have faced a range of challenges in recent years, but the most prominent and persistent is the ongoing workforce shortage. Mustafa Hassan, PhD, Senior Market Analyst, Bhvita Jani, Principal Analyst, and Amy Thompson, Research Manager, who collectively speak to hundreds of the world’s leading medical imaging technology vendors each year, discuss the impact it has had on vendors’ product offerings, and how it will influence their longer-term strategies.

Why we are covering this topic

• The World Health Organisation projects a shortfall of 10 million health workers by 2030, noting that countries at all levels of socioeconomic development face difficulties in the education, employment, deployment, retention, and performance of their workforce.
• These shortages are felt acutely in medical imaging, both in terms of overall employee numbers as well as a lack of experience.

Why it matters

• Healthcare providers are increasingly turning to vendors for help in tackling the issues resulting from the shortages, and there are considerable commercial opportunities for those best placed to provide this support.
• However, vendors have their own challenges to overcome in these efforts, including regulatory barriers and the encroachment of big tech into medical imaging.