HIT Consultant December 2, 2022
Guy Yehiav, President of SmartSense by Digi

Amid widespread staffing shortages across the healthcare sector, the need for IoT-enabled digital transformation in hospitals and patient care facilities is increasingly clear. For the first time since 2004, a lack of staffing has overtaken financial volatility as the No. 1 concern among healthcare CEOs in the American College of Healthcare Executives’ annual survey. Meanwhile, from canceled appointments to delayed surgeries, more than half of all U.S. patients report reductions in care quality due to personnel shortages. The problem is even further magnified in rural areas, with rural-based primary healthcare professionals ranking care quality as a greater concern than access to care within their communities.

With that said, healthcare providers should get proactive about leveraging digital adoption to “do...

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Topics: Health System / Hospital, IoT (Internet of Things), Provider, Survey / Study, Technology, Trends
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