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Professional Services Professional, Scientific And Technical Activities Other Professional, Scientific And Technical Activities 74 - Other professional, scientific and technical activities
300 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
20 September 2016
Employment effect (start)
20 September 2016
Foreseen end date
20 September 2021
Description
Fazzi Healthcare is to create 300 new jobs in Limerick over the next five years.
The expansion, supported by IDA Ireland, is concerned with medical coding and is the first such investment with medical coding in Ireland.
It is a specialised service involving "the transformation of a whole range of healthcare information including diagnosis, treatments, procedures and outcomes into a universal code known as International Classification of Diseases (ICD), which is overseen by the World Health Organization."
Sources
20 September 2016: RTE
20 September 2016: Silicon Republic.com
Citation
Eurofound (2016), Fazzi Healthcare, Business expansion in Ireland, factsheet number 88608, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/88608.
Digitisation and automation technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI), can affect working conditions in a variety of ways and their use in the workplace raises a host of new ethical concerns.
The retail banking sector is fertile ground for studying the impacts of digitalisation on work and employment. Financial services are increasingly provided online, without the intermediary of customer-facing institutions.
European labour markets have recovered strongly from COVID-19. By the end of 2021, little more than 18 months after the start of the pandemic, employment rates in the EU were almost at pre-crisis levels.
