AMN Healthcare: Survey of Temporary Allied Healthcare Professional Staff Trends

AMN Healthcare publishes multiple surveys and other research reports each year that provide original data on a variety of healthcare workforce-related topics, including healthcare professional compensation, supply and demand trends, practice metrics, provider morale, and others. This report marks AMN Healthcare’s inaugural Survey of Temporary Allied Healthcare Professional Staffing Trends. The survey examines the use of temporary allied healthcare professionals at hospitals, medical groups, and other healthcare facilities.

Survey data may be useful to allied healthcare professionals, healthcare executives, policy makers, academics, journalists, and others who track developments in healthcare staffing.

West Monroe: How—and why—healthcare payers should focus on cloud migration

For health plans, the hurdles on the path of transformation are many, and familiar—regulatory shifts and pressures, outdated systems, resource constraints, and siloed technologies and operations are among the most prominent. While there is of course no single solution to these obstacles, there is a way to minimize them: migrating to the cloud.

West Monroe has developed a simple guide for executing a phased approach to cloud migration, organized around six guiding principles that will help healthcare payers effectively plan for and navigate this transition to greater business agility. It’s all about setting the right foundation and planning; we’ve done this with our clients and we know the key questions to ask and pitfalls to avoid. This guide is the perfect way to get started.

UnitedHealth Group: America’s Health Rankings Senior Report

The 10th annual America’s Health Rankings Senior Report reviews the past decade of data to provide a comprehensive look at the health of older Americans, capturing key trends, progress, and challenges in order to spark meaningful dialogue and action to improve senior health.

The impact of the pandemic, contextualized with the data in the 2022 Senior Report, underscores the need for a greater emphasis on senior health care and health outcomes. Policymakers and public health leaders must not lose sight of the long-standing challenges and disparities in senior health — especially mental health — that emerged over the last decade and were potentially exacerbated by COVID-19.

Tabula Rasa HealthCare: The vital role of community pharmacists in today’s healthcare environment

The role of community pharmacists has expanded in recent years and is now more important than ever. The COVID-19 pandemic has shown the vitality of pharmacists beyond filling and refilling prescriptions. In this article, Trevor Bertsch, PharmD, MBA, a community pharmacist, discusses the impact community pharmacists have on their patients and the crucial part they play in medication safety.