Workforce

A pharmacist using a digital tablet while doing inventory in the pharmacy stockroom
By Adam Ang 10:42 pm November 16, 2023
It will enable community pharmacists to prescribe medications.
Parent holding child
By Nathan Eddy 01:23 pm November 14, 2023
The Boston-based company will allow employers to customize benefits packages to include adoption, assisted reproductive technologies and surrogacy options.  
HIMSS president and CEO Hal Wolf and NHIA Director General Chung-Liang Shih during the signing of a memorandum of understanding in Taiwan
By Adam Ang 08:39 pm November 13, 2023
They will also collaborate on building cybersecurity resilience and workforce development.
Clinician uses a mobile app for mental health support.
By Andrea Fox 12:24 pm November 13, 2023
Patients can access automated accessible mental health care tools, which could improve value-based care outcomes and enhance community provider workflows.
People interacting with a robotic companion
By Adam Ang 05:18 pm November 09, 2023
Andromeda Robotics is currently conducting an aged care trial of its Chat GPT-4-powered companion robot.
Doctor sits at a desktop and dictates notes into an EHR
By Andrea Fox 11:15 am November 08, 2023
Informatics researchers from UCSF found that, both during and outside of scheduled hours, an uptick in telehealth use required ambulatory physicians to spend more time working in the electronic health record.
Scientists working on a lab experiment using a digital tablet
By Adam Ang 01:41 am November 07, 2023
A new report points out India's enormous potential to become a global medical device powerhouse.
Dave Segal of the MAVEN Project on telehealth
By Bill Siwicki 02:53 pm November 06, 2023
The average wait time for a specialist appointment across healthcare can be well over three months, but volunteers on this FQHC-focused initiative usually respond in less than 10 hours. Timely access to specialty care impacts health outcomes.
Stethoscope on tablet
By Susan Morse 05:14 pm November 03, 2023
A final rule on nursing home minimum staffing levels is due out after the comment period closes on November 6.
Nurses huddled together look at electronic health records on a tablet.
By Andrea Fox 03:19 pm October 31, 2023
Marquette is the first nursing school in the country to incorporate the use of Epic's educational health records software into its curriculum.