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The recently released AHA-American Society for Health Care Engineering’s Health Care Leader’s Guide to Sustainability and Decarbonization spells out the sustainability challenge facing the field.
Nearly four out of five nurses say they plan to remain in the field until retirement, according to the recently released State of U.S. Nursing Report 2024 from the health care career marketplace company Incredible Health. The fifth annual report, based on the firm’s review of its proprietary data of 1 million nurses and a survey of 3,300 RNs, also found that mental health among nurses is improving.
At the recent HIMSS24 tech conference, issues like how tech companies and provider organizations can work together to accelerate optimal uses of AI, the need for guardrails to ensure the ethical and responsible use of AI and how cloud-based systems can be used to improve diagnostic efficiency and accuracy were punctuated with real-world illustration cases.
The virtual care platform Wheel recently made news by saying it would add mental health provider Talkspace, Mark Cuban’s Cost Plus Drug Company and the data-sharing program Health Gorilla into its integrated health care ecosystem this year.
New Walgreen's CEO Tim Wentworth said he and the board will meet in April to conduct a strategic review of Walgreens’ retail, pharmacy and health care business portfolio and to develop a road map for the future.
Nebraska Medicine, based in Omaha, Nebraska, however, has begun testing an AI tool in two of its primary care clinics to detect diabetic retinopathy in patients — a condition that can lead to blindness.
Thousands of health care leaders gathered last week at the ViVE conference in Los Angeles to explore challenges and opportunities facing health care delivery and how they might be solved or advanced from a health information-management and technology perspective.
Leaders from Guthrie Clinic in Sayre, Pennsylvania, detail how the shift to a virtual, team-based approach to care extends the reach of bedside nurses, attracts new nurses, creates a culture of collaboration and improves patient monitoring and satisfaction.
Leaders at Oliver Wyman’s health care consultancy have been busy studying what health care will look like in 2035 and reimagining what the field may look like roughly a decade from now.
Many health care providers could face an uncertain future if they refuse to transform themselves. Digital innovators can offer hospitals and health systems technology and insights to help solve their most challenging problems.

Resources

Behavioral Health Integration

Framework for hospitals and health systems to shift focus to overall health and bring together behavioral and physical health services into a fully integrated system of care.

Evolving Care Models

Framework for hospitals and health systems to assess their current capabilities to determine the best type of value-based care for the organization.

Telehealth Strategy

Tools for hospitals and health systems to assess their digital transformation strategy and expand telehealth services into integrated virtual care models.