Workforce Development

At HIMSS23, panelists discussed health systems' financial challenges as labor costs rise and the population ages.

Mark Zandi, Moody's Analytics chief economist, predicts that finding and retaining health workers will remain tough while supply chain issues will continue to improve.

Brigham and Women's Hospital innovation and operations analyst Jonathan Letourneau discusses the benefits of collaboration between teams to improve healthcare design.

Dr. Cecil Lynch, chief medical information officer at Accenture, discusses his upcoming HIMSS23 lecture on genomics' potential impact on patient care and the importance of examining genetic information and its relationship to comorbidities.

Children's National Hospital CISO Nate Lesser highlights his coming HIMSS23 session where he will explain a system-wide cybersecurity effort that pulls in staff members across the enterprise.

The latest cohort includes 23 companies focused on technology for retaining, deploying and training healthcare workers.

Nuance Communications said the app creates notes based on patient conversations that clinicians can then review.

Dr. Vin Gupta, Amazon Pharmacy CMO and NBC Medical Analyst, and a keynote speaker at HIMSS23, highlights the need to carry on with the positive disruption demanded by the pandemic.

Best-selling author Erica Dhawan says we can reimagine how we engage with others. She will deliver a HIMSS23 Executive Summit keynote, "Get Big Things Done: The Power of Connectional Intelligence."

"Staffing Optimization With AI: A look back & look forward," a HIMSS23 educational session, will feature Natalie Edgeworth, senior manager for workforce optimization and innovation at Providence.