Workforce

Tammy Kwiatkoski, senior director of clinical informatics at HIMSS, describes the growing opportunities for nurse informaticists and the importance of digital solutions for enriching communications between patients and clinicians.

It provides recommendations for sleep timing based on their work and personal calendar and records of sleep/wake times and mood.

Butterfly Network, maker of a handheld ultrasound, also announced it had hired Joseph M. DeVivo as the company's new president and CEO.

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

Healthcare IT industry insiders as well as our roving reporters deliver news and views from the show floor on Day 2 of the 2023 HIMSS Global Health Conference & Exhibition in Chicago.

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.