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Optimize Nurse Coverage: An Innovative Approach to Overcoming Staffing Challenges Leveraging AI and Automation to Enhance Collaboration and Outcomes

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Jason Harber
VP, Client Services, iQueue for Inpatient Flow, LeanTaaS
Bryan Dickerson
Bryan Dickerson
Principal Product Manager, iQueue for Inpatient Flow, LeanTaaS

Summary

Ensuring optimal nurse coverage in acute care hospitals is an urgent challenge exacerbated by the nursing shortages that have profoundly impacted healthcare organizations resulting in higher nurse-to-patient ratios, increased reliance on premium pay strategies, and the need to close beds due to inadequate staffing, all of which impact patient care quality and staff satisfaction. The session examines how the strategic application of AI, workflow automation, and change management can effectively address these challenges and improve nurse staffing outcomes.

Learn how AI and automation can address the challenges posed by nursing shortages. Discover the transformative impact of integrating advanced technologies with strategic management in healthcare staffing. This session will explore how AI and automation empower healthcare systems to achieve significant operational improvements:

  • Increased Quality: Improve care delivery and patient outcomes.
  • Improved Satisfaction: Boost staff morale and patient satisfaction rates.
  • Higher Margins: Elevate operational efficiency to achieve greater profitability.

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Chapter 1: The Looming Challenge

If you work in the healthcare industry, or even if you’re just an interested observer, you don’t need a book to tell you that the financial pressure is on as never before. A perfect storm of circumstances is swirling together, one that will make survivability, not to mention profitability, a greater challenge for healthcare companies than we’ve seen in the modern era.

As with banks, retailers, and airlines, which had to rapidly enhance their brick-and-mortar footprints with robust online business models—it is the early movers eager to gain new efficiencies that will thrive and gain market share. The slow-to-move and the inefficient will end up being consolidated into larger health systems seeking to expand their geographical footprints.

The pressures on healthcare

Let’s look at just a few of the looming challenges healthcare must meet head-on.

An aging population

By the year 2030, the number of adults sixty-five years of age or older will exceed the number of children eighteen years or younger in the United States. We are living longer than our parents did. Positive news for sure, but problematic for several reasons.

The older we get, the more medical help we need. Older people have more chronic diseases. By 2025, nearly 50 percent of the population will suffer from one or more chronic diseases that will require ongoing medical intervention. This combination of an aging population and an increase in chronic diseases will create a ballooning demand for healthcare services.

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