HIT Consultant November 6, 2023
Artificial intelligence is transforming the way the healthcare industry operates, from clinical decision-making to front-office tasks to financial workflows. Perhaps one of the areas where AI has the most potential is nurse staffing, an issue that has reached crisis proportions as a result of COVID-19.
The pandemic exacerbated existing issues such as short staffing and created new ones like skyrocketing contingent labor costs. Today, nurse turnover rates remain far higher than pre-pandemic levels, and the nurse vacancy rate is also dangerously high, with over 75% of hospitals reporting rates higher than 10%. Addressing this situation and taking steps to make nursing a more sustainable career path for the future is a massive problem that requires innovation, and AI has...