How the Analytics of Care Can Balance Workforce Capacity
MedCity News March 19, 2024
The always-on, connected health system is not a distant moonshot, but today’s reality.
U.S. healthcare is experiencing a supply and demand crisis as it races to keep pace with an aging population amidst a workforce shortage and mounting financial pressures. And the situation appears unlikely to improve anytime soon. In fact, recent projections anticipate a shortfall of 139,000 physicians in the next decade, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges.
One limiting factor preventing the efficient management of workforce resources is a lack of data interoperability.
Disparate datasets – emitting from legacy EMRs, practice management systems and third-party software – have created operational blind spots preventing health systems from precisely managing the allocation of care. And instead of a...