Will Clinical Professional Compensation Drive Task Shifting?

Yesterday during the Aspen Spotlight Health Conference sessions, "Algorithms, Big Data, and Your Health" and "The Science Of Delivering Health Care" the big discussion was about the potential of "augmented intelligence" and "assistive technologies" to change the price point of health and human service delivery. What was interesting to me is that the presenters focused on "task shifting" as the primary way to harness technology in cost reduction-focusing on the idea that work done by specialists can be done by primary care professionals; that work done by primary care professionals can be done by other health workers; and that . . .