clinical workforce

"Staffing Optimization With AI: A look back & look forward," a HIMSS23 educational session, will feature Natalie Edgeworth, senior manager for workforce optimization and innovation at Providence.

In a look ahead at a HIMSS23 panel Olga Kagan, RN, adjunct professor at CUNY School of Professional Studies and Molloy University, explains the ways tools can empower nurses, assist in career development and lower burnout levels.

Artificial intelligence can help free clinicians from administrative tasks so they can focus on one-on-one patient care, according to Dave Brown, CEO at QiiQ and Thanos Melitsiotis, CPO at QiiQ.

Feeling undervalued and disrespected adds to clinicians' sense of burnout. Dean Browell, chief behavioral officer at Feedback, offers advice on how organizations can draw and hold onto experienced doctors and nurses.

The startup connects new mental health providers with supervisors to complete their licensure requirements. The new funding brings its total raise to $16.3 million.

Diane Swonk, Grant Thornton's chief economist, discusses the pandemic-fueled burnout's impact on healthcare organizations, and how employers can help support mental and physical health.

The company offers workforce-management tools for employers and a job marketplace for healthcare workers.

This week's top stories include a finding that the effectiveness of digital tools varies based on socioeconomic status, and Kaiser Permanente workers reach a tentative agreement to avoid a nationwide strike.

Patient care can be ramped up via AI. Clinician burnout also improves, says Selwa A. F. Al-Hazzaa, MD, CEO of Saudi Development Med.

AI can help accelerate workflows for improved efficiency and patient experience and enable physicians and staff to focus on what they do best and offer the best possible care to patients, says Philips' Sham Sokka.