Workforce

Community Classroom, part of BioEnterprise’s Health IT in the CLE program, works to build the healthcare workforce by giving high school students computer and data science instruction.

More than two dozen organizations will get money from HRSA's new Rural Residency Planning and Development Program grants.

And that's because too many board members don't have the right level of IT and security expertise, a new Black Book study suggests.

As part of the deal, which involves nonclinical technologies, about 540 health system staff will become Optum employees.

The list of healthcare jobs the AHIMA Foundation program can help fill and upskill is long and varied, including clinical documentation improvement specialists, data analysts, medical and clinical lab techs, privacy and security officers and more.

Commonwealth Corporation, a workforce development agency that works to boost the skills of Massachusetts young adults with investments and partnerships, has released new funding to create new pilots to expand training for entry-level healthcare workers.

The 10-year initiative will focus on workforce development, education and training for next-generation care delivery.

When developing a digital health system, it's crucial that the workforce be involved in the design process, says Kaija Saranto, professor in Health and Human Services Informatics at the University of Eastern Finland.

Accenture's Kaveh Safavi discusses healthcare's outsized spend on labor – and how machine learning, telehealth and consumerism are transforming how work is done and who does it.

A study in Health Affairs finds that strategies for managing how in-basket messages are generated and presented could improve the job satisfaction of frontline clinical staff.