Why HealthCare should invest in E-Learning
Times are changing
In e-Learning, as in most corporate learning modalities, we are singing the same old song: no time, no money, and no interest in training.
We’re talking about healthcare now, and this year there are still lots of all those reasons not to train in this growing sector of the economy.
The E-Learning Market is worth over 50$B, with an annual growth of the 8%.
The Augmented Reality market today is worth 1$B, and has a C.A.G.R. over the 132.2%.
Over 41.7% of Fortune 500 companies are using educational technology for formal training sessions. And, The Research Institute of America demonstrates this type of learning has the potential to increase information retention by up to 60%. All signs point to e-learning enhancing performance, but it all depends on content, specifically as it applies within industries.
And, the move towards e-learning (away from more traditional methods) offers a myriad of benefits. Businesses stands to both save money and earn more when they make the switch to online platforms. According to at least one report, corporations can save between 50–70% when they make the switch from instructor-led to e-learning courses. That’s budgetary savings, but profit follows. According to IBM research, e-learning has the potential increase employee productivity by 50%. On top of that, every $1 spent on e-learning, companies can expect $30 worth of productivity.
Another survey suggests 72% of companies use e-learning to keep up to date with industry changes. This year, companies plan to increase e-learning in the development of professional skills by 45.5%. Those are precisely the skills that the medical profession are hoping to improve through increased use of e-learning.
Not bad, right?
We are joining in a new market who can improve healthcare performances and education experience.
So, how does a healthcare provider capitalize on the advantages we have today to help build tomorrow?
You can do it easily with the technological training tools we are developing.
The wearable learning is a time bomb, and we are already operating for start to change the method of teaching and learning.
So, as we move further into the Wearable Era, my own interest and involvement in this area falls into two areas:
- Providing independent information, advice and support on the use of wearable technology and the implications for its use in education, the enterprise and other organizations.
- Helping to develop new (learning) applications for wearable devices like Google Glass, smart watches etc.
With the wide dispersal of information available through e-Learning technologies, we can leverage the available time, money and interest to improve the future for our patients and our providers.
As Peggy Salvatore said in 2009: “Hospitals, medical offices, clinics, and long-term care facilities find themselves downsizing and right sizing, just like most other businesses in this economic climate. At the same time, they are gearing up for the onslaught of the healthcare needs of an aging population. That means now is the time to deliver training, while we are in a sort of remission period between the go-go years of prosperity when we spent more freely on necessary and discretionary healthcare, and the lean years ahead when fewer dollars will have to go much further to serve the expanding senior population.”
It’s true.
HealthCare providers can benefit of a ROI based on worldwide exposure, absolute ownership of contents and unprecedented case studies about the integration of Augmented Reality as method of teaching.
We allow to rate hospitals, medical offices and clinics for get them customers, success stories and more performances.
We are empowering tomorrow’s leading surgeons and doctors.
