Compliance is still of the highest importance
We can’t talk about healthcare industry learning trends without mentioning compliance. It’s easy to see why compliance is important to healthcare organisations. No healthcare organisation wants to risk the health of its people or the people it serves. Regulations, policies and procedures are in place to protect patients, customers and colleagues alike. Adhering to regulations means systems and procedures are constantly reviewed, and colleague education surrounding compliance topics like data privacy, conflict of interest, and mental health is ever-evolving. Healthcare organisations are seeking flexible digital learning solutions with <a href="https://bestatdigital.com/2022/06/24/how-to-design-a-measurable-digital-onboarding-experience/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">robust reporting capabilities.</a>
Fixed regulation requires personalised learning solutions
One of the reasons compliance isn’t as straightforward in the healthcare industries as in others is that policies and procedures can vary wildly by country, job role and level of seniority. For example, for one of our global customers, colleagues who work across states must adhere to different governing bodies depending on the area in which they work, many working across more than one. Each governing body has different reporting requirements. When it comes to learning and development, compliance topics need to be easy for organisations to manage, taking the burden away from manual work and gatekept knowledge, and placing it on automated systems and easy-to-access resources. What’s needed is dynamic learning solutions, personalised to user’s priorities and regulatory requirements – whether they work on the manufacturing room floor, in labs, or in business roles.
A focus on data analytics
The compliance picture is one of the reasons data analytics in learning and development is so important to healthcare organisations. They need surety that the right colleagues have completed the right training in the right way. This has always been the case, but as healthcare companies become more digitally focused, more is required from their data analytics. We witnessed this healthcare industry learning trend on a recent project with a healthcare customer where we developed a Conflict of Interest web form that enabled our customer to track completion of the form as well as provide managers oversight of their team members' form responses. Our solution significantly reduced reporting time, improved the user experience, and saved the business money.
Digital transformation
Increased interest in detailed data analytics follows the trend of <a href="https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/insights/industry/health-care/digital-transformation-in-healthcare.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">digital transformation in the healthcare industry.</a><!-- [if !supportAnnotations]-->The move toward digital processes, systems, and communication continues, with ‘digital’ playing a bigger part in branding and strategy. Internal learning and development teams have shifted their expectations in line with this, recognising the opportunity to utilise this digital momentum and produce future-focused learning solutions for the modern learner. For some of our customers, the digital learning focus has shifted from ‘make it engaging’ to ‘make it easy to find, quick to complete and simple for us to update’. This ‘self-serve’ approach reflects the changing nature of work, with more people working from home creating less opportunity for face-to-face networking.
A little less “read this policy”, a little more real world behaviours
When we look deeper – at the learning content itself, we’re seeing a shift away from detailed policy-based training and a move toward experiences designed around real-world behaviours. To support this move, healthcare is looking to behavioural science to break down and embed important messages. Some of our healthcare customers have recruited behavioural science experts and teams to support this mission. We’re excited about this healthcare industry learning trend! At BAD, we place <a href="https://bestatdigital.com/behavioural-science/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">behavioural science</a> at the forefront of everything we do. We use our expertise in understanding complex business issues and bring the disciplines of behavioural science and digital skills to help solve them by affecting people’s behaviour. We’re delighted to be singing from the same hymn sheet as our healthcare customers.
Flexible solutions
Combine rigorous regulation with digital transformation and the crux of healthcare industry learning trends is revealed: healthcare organisations require flexible digital learning solutions with robust reporting that can be maintained with ease. Things move fast, and when they do move it’s important that L&D teams can update content, and that colleagues can access the latest information quickly and easily.
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