It has been more than two years since the COVID-19 global pandemic began. Healthcare organizations are still grappling with some of the same challenges they faced when it started, most notably in staffing.¹ With the tightening labor market, employment challenges are especially difficult for healthcare providers due to the dramatic increase in demand created in the last two years for skilled practitioners in the space.² Challenges finding talent, coupled with increased turnover, widespread burnout and staff members calling in sick, has led to more salary spending and other incentives to retain skilled staff members.³ Additional investments in telehealth services, digital therapeutics, personalized medicine, provider-focused infrastructure and chronic condition management tools have occurred, with the goal of alleviating some of the stress on the healthcare system caused by the ongoing labor shortages.⁴

 

 

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