Workforce Management

The Sequoia Project, AHIMA Aims to Enhance Data Usability Efforts

July 11, 2023 - In an effort to build better semantic interoperability of health information, the Sequoia Project and the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) have created Data Usability Taking Root, an initiative meant to ease the implementation and flow of data. Despite the high availability of data, its use and application often contain...


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How OCHIN Is Advancing Community Health Through Health IT Workforce Training

by Hannah Nelson

While the healthcare provider shortage is a well-known reality, community health centers in California are being hit with a simultaneous lack of health IT personnel. OCHIN, a nonprofit research and innovation network, recently conducted...

Lack of Interoperability Exacerbates Staffing Shortages, Clinician Burnout

by Hannah Nelson

Top healthcare pain points among provider organizations include poor interoperability and long-term solutions to staffing shortages and clinician burnout, according to a KLAS whitepaper. In September...

VA Medical Center Shrinks Workforce to Address EHRM Budget Shortfalls

by Sarai Rodriguez

The rising budget associated with the Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) Electronic Health Record Modernization (EHRM) project has led to workforce cuts at Mann-Grandstaff VA Medical Center,...

Primary Care Workforce Burnout Goes Beyond EHR Use to Leadership Style

by Hannah Nelson

A new Health Affairs study found that burnout was not associated with EHR satisfaction or the number of patients seen per clinician. Instead, researchers found that facilitative leadership centered on...