AXIOS January 26, 2022
Amid a nationwide nursing shortage and burnout crisis, tech companies say they could be part of the solution by allowing nurses to essentially join the gig economy.
Why it matters: Demand is accelerating for tools that help hospitals more efficiently fill shifts, while also offering an exhausted workforce more flexibility.
“We’re trying to keep these people in the industry,” Will Patterson, CEO of CareRev, a health care staffing platform, told Axios.
The big picture: The nursing workforce was facing a shortfall of roughly 200,000 nursing professionals even before the Great Resignation hit.
- As health care workers retired, changed jobs or called out sick en masse due to COVID, many hospitals were left scrambling and filling the gaps with high-cost...
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