Combating healthcare staff shortages with digital solutions

Staff shortages in healthcare: Crisis or opportunity?

Healthcare systems across the world are facing severe staff shortages, a phenomenon that The Guardian just recently described as “a ticking time bomb”.1 The latest Becker’s Physician Leadership survey shows that healthcare executives cite staff shortages as their number-one concern facing healthcare systems.2 The World Health Organization (2022) estimates that there will be a worldwide shortage of 15 million healthcare workers by the year 2030.3 In the US alone, 100,000 nurses left the workforce between 2020 and 2021, many of whom are below the age of 35.4

Combating staff shortages in healthcare with digital solutions (healthcaretransformers.com)