Does the USA nursing shortage provide any technology opportunities?

The University of Maryland ’s Center for Health Work Force Development says we will be short 1,000,000 nurses by 2015. The causes for the shortages are well known and documented; however, the solutions are not very forthcoming. I’ve been involved in projects that tried to bring in nurses from foreign countries like Philli pines, Pakistan, and India through the U.S. Immigration’s H1-B program but that’s not a complete solution either. Although nursing is a service sector that we can’t automate ourselves out of, are there any ideas that you’d like to share for specific technologies or solutions that may help re lieve the nursing shortage pressure?
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