Healthcare IT News July 10, 2019
Accenture’s Kaveh Safavi discusses healthcare’s outsized spend on labor – and how machine learning, telehealth and consumerism are transforming how work is done and who does it.
As healthcare manages the twin challenges of a shrinking workforce and an expanding patient population, hospitals and health systems are faced with some fundamental challenges.
And they’re spending lots and lots of money to help manage them. Accenture data shows that nearly two out of every three dollars spent by U.S. hospitals – 65 percent of expenditure, on average – goes to labor costs.
Like so much else in healthcare, that’s set to...
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