Taking a break from who is hiring and who was hired, we rounded up some reading on the state of the healthcare workforce. Like many things in our lives for the few years the pandemic has taken a toll on it. The healthcare workforce might be on the top of the list of disruption. With 18% of healthcare workers having left their jobs and another 12% being laid off, what are the solutions for healthcare as a whole? You can’t open a paper, magazine, or watch news and not hear about the crisis that has evolved. Here are some insights and reports.
In the News
HealthStream Launches HealthStream Learning Experience™ (HLX) Application, Powering Extended Workforce Development Capabilities With an AI-First Approach
HealthStream, a healthcare technology platform for workforce solutions, announces the launch of the HealthStream Learning Experience™ (HLX), its groundbreaking learning experience application. The HLX is designed as a modern, healthcare-specific application to offer the healthcare workforce personalized, self-directed, intelligent learning and development pathways, incorporating a wide range of learning modalities—all in an engaging and thoroughly modern user experience. With its innovative technologies, the HLX will make use of a wide variety of data to make smart recommendations of content and development pathways for each healthcare professional.
Apps Associates Introduces AppsAccelerate for Healthcare to Enhance Healthcare Operations and Insights
Apps Associates, a premier enterprise applications and technology advisor, announced the launch of AppsAccelerate for Healthcare, a comprehensive suite of solutions tailored to the healthcare industry. Built on Oracle Cloud’s powerful platform, AppsAccelerate for Healthcare combines prebuilt analytics, workforce optimization, financial planning, and inventory management tools to address the industry’s unique challenges.
Cogent Infotech Launches CWS Health to provide Healthcare Technology and Workforce Solutions
Cogent Infotech, an IT Consulting and Workforce solutions company, proudly launches CWS Health, a new entity aimed at driving innovation within the healthcare industry. By offering customized Health IT and innovative Workforce solutions, this company will empower Federal, State & Local, and Commercial organizations to overcome their most pressing challenges related to patient care, clinician burnout, employee attrition, and operational excellence.
ECRI acquires The Just Culture Company to transform healthcare patient and workforce safety
ECRI, a global nonprofit organization improving the quality and safety of healthcare, announced it acquired The Just Culture Company, which specializes in transforming workforce culture in high-risk industries. The Just Culture Company assists organizations in deploying a balanced system of accountability between the organization and employee that fosters a fair, learning culture – referred to as a “just culture” – by implementing its proprietary algorithm through advisory services, educational programs and coaching.
To Read
The Future Healthcare Workforce – From FTI Consulting, on Lexology – The rising prevalence of chronic conditions, coupled with the lasting impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, has brought the healthcare system’s critical role into sharp focus. A heightened demand for accessible, quality care has exposed vulnerabilities, particularly in workforce capacity. Healthcare organizations now face a dual challenge: meeting increasing patient needs while contending with a significant and growing shortage of professionals across both clinical and non-clinical roles.
The healthcare workforce crisis demands a comprehensive, strategic response. In our experience working across healthcare organizations in the United States, we have found that each organization is unique in its strategy, population and workforce challenges. Four essential solutions to address these challenges include: (1) transforming care models, (2) building strong partnerships, (3) leveraging data-driven, human-centered technology and (4) cultivating a distinctive culture.
3 Top Takeaways from Health Care 2025 Forecasts – From the American Hospital Association – Three things are certain in this world: death, taxes and health care predictions for 2025. Each year we review a slew of health care outlooks and, after sifting through them, here are a few of the more interesting hypotheses.
The 25 health care jobs expected to grow the most in the coming years, according to data – By Halle Young, Data Work By Paxtyn Merten, from MSN – The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates the U.S. economy will grow by 6.7 million jobs in the next decade. Health care and social assistance jobs, the fastest-growing industry sectors in the United States, will drive much of that labor growth.
Many conditions are contributing to the expansion of the health care sector—one of which is the country’s rapidly aging population, driven by baby boomers who first turned 65 in 2011. Between 2010 and 2020, the over-65 population rose by 38.6% to 55.8 million, according to the Census Bureau—a growth more than two times as quick as in the decade prior, when this population group increased by 15.1%.
Solving the Staffing Crisis: Innovative Healthcare Workforce Strategies – From the Clearlink Partners Blog – The healthcare workforce is at a crossroads, facing a significant staffing crisis that challenges organizations across the industry. As the demand for skilled healthcare professionals outpaces supply, companies must begin to rethink traditional approaches and adopt innovative practices to stay resilient and maintain patient care excellence.
Navigating the Healthcare Workforce Crisis: A Call for Innovation in Workforce Optimization – From Redesign Health – The U.S. healthcare system faces severe workforce management challenges, with organizations spending over 50% of their budgets on labor costs while still struggling with staffing shortages, burnout, and inefficient resource allocation despite existing solutions. To address these persistent issues, the market needs healthcare-specific, integrated workforce optimization platforms that leverage predictive analytics rather than simply digitizing manual processes.
The State of Healthcare Workforce Shortages: Challenges, Causes, and Solutions – From the TotalMed Blog – The challenge that has haunted healthcare executives, exhausted our workforce, driven policy changes, and sparked numerous studies and analyses? You guessed it—shortages. Healthcare shortages have plagued our system even before the pandemic, and they’ve skyrocketed since. By 2022, an estimated 100,000 RNs left the workforce due to stress, burnout, or retirement, largely driven by pandemic pressures. The fallout from these shortages? A devastating clinician exodus fueled by burnout and exhaustion. Workers who have stayed are now burned out, exhausted, and dissatisfied. Healthcare facilities are overwhelmingly understaffed and under budget.
Staffing Shortages in Healthcare & Maintaining Quality Care – By Jon-Michial Carter, Chartspan – The American healthcare system faces significant challenges in delivering quality healthcare. Perhaps none is more critical than staffing shortages. In recent years, the problem has become pervasive, affecting many specialties and regions. By 2037, the shortage of full-time equivalent (FTE) physicians is expected to reach 187,130. In March 2023, the International Council of Nurses (ICN) declared the worldwide nursing shortage a global health emergency. The shortage of full-time registered nurses (RNs) in the U.S. specifically is expected to escalate to 63,720 by 2030.
Health workforce – From the World Health Organization – Health systems can only function with health workers; improving health service coverage and realizing the right to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health is dependent on their availability, accessibility, acceptability and quality. WHO estimates a projected shortfall of 10 million health workers by 2030, mostly in low- and lower-middle income countries. However, countries at all levels of socioeconomic development face, to varying degrees, difficulties in the education, employment, deployment, retention, and performance of their workforce.
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