BY ASAHP PRESIDENT PHYLLIS KING
CONTINUITY, CONNECTIVITY, AND CONVERGENCE
We have been thrust into the digitization of healthcare. The pandemic has fast-forwarded our adoption of technologies to serve the healthcare industry in almost every way. The convergence of technology, digitalization, additive manufacturing, machine learning and 3D modeling is here. Innovations as a result of these changes will significantly impact the patient experience, businesses, and the
modeling of education to prepare the next generation healthcare workforce.
The question for higher education is how fast can we understand, adapt, anticipate and project patient care needs and healthcare innovations to prepare our students and meet the needs of this new world? Digital literacy has become a necessity. Data-informed decision-making offers us a superior advantage. Collaborations and partnerships are critical.
ASAHP supports, informs, guides, leads, and works with you to advance education, practice, and research, and influence policies through partnerships. Let’s work together to shape our future. ASAHP is adapting to a more virtual reality and virtual forms of engagement with members to be more responsive to members. Join a community of learning and conversations on our website (click here to join).
More frequent webinar offerings on important topics to the health professions are being developed. The first webinar on “Clinical Education in the Time of COVID-19” received an overwhelmingly positive response with 245 participants from 96 institutions. The webinar is posted on the ASAHP website in case you were not able to attend. We will continue to bring you the latest news and information via multiple communication channels. Join us when you can.
STUDENT UNCERTAINTY ABOUT RE-ENROLLING IN FALL 2020
Now that colleges and universities across the nation have closed their doors for the current semester, a question worth pondering is what can be expected to happen in the Fall and will all students return to campus if able to do so? A national survey commissioned by the American Council on Education (ACE) and the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO) administered to more than 2,000 currently enrolled U.S. college students finds that nearly one in five are uncertain about their plans for re-enrolling in the fall, or definitely are not going at all. Eighty-two percent of students say, however, that they will be able to complete all or most of their spring coursework as planned, while just 5% indicated they will not be able to complete any courses as planned.
Some 12% are uncertain or no longer plan to enroll at all. An additional 3% say they are planning to enroll in the fall to make up classes not completed in the spring due to COVID-19, meaning it is not clear they are planning to re-enroll fully. Finally, 3% say they were not planning to enroll previously and that has not changed. Hence, students who are uncertain or definitely not returning present a mixed picture for institutions already suffering significant financial losses due to the pandemic and adding to an uncertain portrait of what fall enrollment might look like. An Infographic containing more information can be obtained here.
More April 2020 TRENDS Articles
CALLING ALL CARS AND HEALTH DETECTIVES
Indicates the important role that epidemiologists play in explaining what is transpiring at key stages of COVID-19. Read more
PRESIDENT’S CORNER
ASAHP President Phyllis King discusses how with the thrust into the digitization of healthcare, the question for higher education is how fast can we understand, adapt, anticipate and project patient care needs and healthcare innovations to prepare our students and meet the needs of this new world? Read more
FAST CHANGING LEGISLATIVE ENVIRONMENT
Depicts efforts by the federal government to provide additional funding through Paycheck Program Protection legislation, along with an increasing concern that the U.S. is too dependent on other nations for supplying minerals used in the production of pharmaceuticals and medical devices. Read more
HEALTH REFORM DEVELOPMENTS
Points out how the existence of accountable care organizations (ACOs) is threatened by the current pandemic; describes COVID-19 surveillance activities in relation to the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution; and loosening by the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) of telehealth and scope of practice regulations. Read more
DEVELOPMENTS IN HIGHER EDUCATION
Describes a recent ASAHP webinar on clinical education; a statement of principles on academic credit; and whether regional higher education accreditation should go national. Read more
QUICK STAT (SHORT, TIMELY, AND TOPICAL)
Lifetime Prevalence Of Self-Reported Work-Related Health Problems Among U.S. Workers
National Health Expenditure Projections, 2019-2028
Skin-Interfaced Biosensors For Wireless Physiological Monitoring In Neonatal And Pediatric Intensive-Care Units
Bacterial Colonization Reprograms The Neonatal Gut Metabolome Read more
AVAILABLE RESOURCES ACCESSIBLE ELECTRONICALLY
Brain Health Across The Lifespan
Leading In A Time Of Crisis: Corporate America And COVID-19
Confronting Rural America’s Health Care Crisis Read more
RACIAL DISPARITIES IN AUTOMATED SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEMS
Mentions how these tools do not work equally well for all subgroups of the population, with study results showing that all five ASR systems in an investigation exhibited substantial racial disparities, with an average word error rate (WER) of 0.35 for black speakers compared with 0.19 for white speakers. Read More
ESTABLISHING HIGH PERFORMING TEAMS: HEALTH CARE LESSONS
Refers to a study that shows while both Functional Change and Cultural Change processes were individually important for enhancing team-based health care, they were most effective when mobilized in tandem. Read more