Four Digital Solutions That Can Alleviate Issues In Healthcare
Jesse Corn, CPO Zivian Health, is a digital health executive and health tech founder with over 14 years of experience in digital solutions.
It has been widely reported how the pandemic accelerated stress and workloads on healthcare workers and organizations. While medical professionals have shown incredible resilience, they are not invincible. Staffing shortages, inaccessibility to proper care and employee burnout are real, undermining the core of patient care.
In a recent survey, nearly one-third of nurses reported that they plan to leave their current direct patient care jobs in the next 12 months due to burnout, with most leaving the industry altogether. The U.S. Bureau of Labor statistics highlights the staffing shortage crisis by pointing to the 1.8 million job openings in healthcare annually, which has grown almost 40% and is much faster than the average for all other occupations. On top of that, nearly two-thirds of the primary care health professional shortage areas in the United States are in rural communities.
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