Healthcare Workforce – 2023 Health IT Predictions

As we head into 2023, we wanted to kick off the new year with a series of 2023 Health IT predictions.  We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes.  Check out our communities predictions below and be sure to add your own thoughts and/or places you disagree with these predictions in the comments and on social media. Check out our community’s healthcare workforce predictions. Kelly Conklin, Chief Clinical Officer at PerfectServe Let’s be real—nurses are, to put it lightly, still being stretched very thin. We’re no longer in the throes of the pandemic, but staffing issues persist in a major way, and the people putting on scrubs every day are struggling to tread water. I’ve been talking with hospitals all over the country this year, and in recent conversations I’ve heard more and more about virtual nursing. This kind of technology-enabled workflow can take a tremendous burden off of some of our most important care team members. Think about it—we’ve already got technology that can efficiently deliver every kind of communication, whether it’s going from patient to nurse or from nurse to patient. At the push of a button, a virtual nurse can walk through the admission checklist or answer other general questions for the patient, which then frees bedside nurses up to answer calls and tend to physical patient needs faster. Tha...
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