Modern Healthcare January 30, 2023
Digital health may be able to only solve a subset of the problems that have led to nursing strikes across the country.
Earlier this month, thousands of nurses at New York City hospitals went on strike for three days. Last Thursday, 97% of union nurses from MyMicigan Medical Center voted to strike.
Hospitals have already dealt with a shortage of nurses in the last few years thanks in part to burnout from the COVID-19 pandemic. This shortage has led to the creation of several digital health companies, which aim to solve this problem either by reducing administrative tasks or directly addressing staffing.
But health system executives say digital health is only equipped to address narrow problems in staffing shortages rather...
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