How Digital Health Companies Attract Software Engineers: Goals

Companies creating health care applications, digital fitness solutions, and other health-related software compete fiercely for technical staff. An article by Developers.Net cites various statistics suggesting that demand outstrips the supply of programmers by hundreds of thousands of people. Other disciplines (such as needed for data science and machine learning) are also hotly contested. Anmol Madan, co-founder and CEO of RadiantGraph, says that tech experts might need to accept a pay cut to work for a small digital health company. Startups just can’t compete with major employers such as Google on salary and benefits. But don’t we need to apply our best design, programming, and data science efforts to a field that disproportionately determines human happiness, and that consumes %20 of the U.S. economy? Stephen Dean—co-founder of Keona Health, which creates AI-based tools to relieve burdens from clinicians—points out that software and AI will be necessary to rescue the health care field, burdened as it is with burn-out, widespread staff retirements, and the morale-sapping pressures of documentation. Dean points out, “There’s a lot of low-hanging fruit relative to other industries. Because health care lags in automation, patients find interactions with their doctor harder, longer, and filled with more barriers compared to banking, retail, and other services.” At the same time, digital health companies seek a particularly committed developer wh...
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