Workforce Innovation

Growing Without Compromise: How Vision Radiology Balances Scale, AI, and Clinical Quality

Radiology sits at the center of a modern healthcare squeeze: imaging volumes are climbing, hospitals need faster reads, and there simply are not enough radiologists to meet demand the old way. At the same time, remote work and AI are reshaping what a clinical practice can look like. The challenge is no longer whether…

A Physician Entrepreneur’s Playbook for Fixing America’s Specialty Care Gap

The U.S. healthcare system is facing a quiet but accelerating crisis: a widening gap between where specialists are needed and where they actually practice. In urology alone, there are roughly 1,100 open positions but only about 400 new specialists trained each year—a mismatch that’s only getting worse. As physician burnout rises and more clinicians…

From the Bench: How Research Can Help Us Build a Future-Ready Global Healthcare Workforce

The Care Anywhere podcast is taking listeners behind the scenes of global health workforce research with a brand-new series: From the Bench. In this kickoff episode, host Lea Sims talks with Dr. Lauren Herckis of TruMerit about how research can move from data to real-world impact — revealing how evidence, collaboration, and curiosity are driving…

Leading Through Change: Dr. Kevin Stevenson on Workforce, Innovation, and the Future of Healthcare

Healthcare is at a critical turning point, where staffing pressures, shrinking reimbursements, and rising patient expectations are reshaping the future of healthcare. According to the AACN Nursing Workforce Fact Sheet, the federal government projects more than 203,000 new registered nurse positions will be created annually from 2021 to 2031, reflecting high demand from an…

The Whole Nurse: Design Thinking, Self-healing, and Transformational Belonging

In this episode of Care Anywhere: The Global Health Workforce Podcast, host Lea Sims, Chief Marketing Officer of TruMerit, welcomes Kathryn Shaffer, EdD, RN, MSN, CNE, CCFP, Director of Innovation at Thomas Jefferson University’s College of Nursing. Kathryn brings a distinctive perspective on reimagining nursing education and practice through a holistic, self-healing lens. The…

The Nursing Workplace: Staffing, Shortage, and Safety

In this episode of Care Anywhere: The Global Health Workforce Podcast, host Lea Sims welcomes Syl Trepanier, DNP, RN, Chief Nursing Officer for Providence Health and member of the TruMerit Board of Trustees. With responsibility for representing more than 36,000 nurses across a multi-state health system, Syl shares his personal journey from caregiving as…

Advancing Global Competency Frameworks for the Nursing Profession – Live from ICN

In this special episode recorded at the 2025 International Council of Nurses Congress in Helsinki, host Lea Sims sits down with Professor Sylvia Fung, President of the Hong Kong Academy of Nursing & Midwifery, and Professor Ying Zhou of Guangzhou Huashang College. Together, they discuss how the nursing profession is evolving in Asia and the…

Omnicell Deploys Healthcare Automation to Ease Staff Strain and Elevate Patient Care

Hospitals are facing a deepening staffing crisis that threatens care delivery. More than 540,000 healthcare workers exited the field between February 2020 and September 2021, and hospital employment declined by nearly 94,000 during the same period. Projections indicate that over 6.5 million healthcare professionals could leave the workforce by 2026, creating a net shortfall…

Demystifying the Global Health Workforce

Global nursing shortages are reshaping healthcare systems, and international leaders share what needs to happen next

Career Journeys: Impact Through Entrepreneurism

Healthcare professionals are leveraging entrepreneurship to create pathways for underrepresented workers in global markets

Personalized Solutions Through Data Are the Future of Aligning Healthcare Staff Needs with Patient Outcomes

Healthcare systems are discovering that targeted workforce data can simultaneously ease staffing pressures and strengthen patient care outcomes

Key Predictions of Virtual Nursing

Hospital leaders anticipate virtual nursing will streamline operations and improve patient outcomes without eliminating traditional bedside care

Advancing Workforce Development and Health Equity: HIMS 2024 with Geoffrey Roche

Healthcare leaders are discovering that solving workforce shortages is essential to closing health equity gaps across vulnerable populations

Championing Holistic HLTH is Also Important for the Future of Healthcare

Healthcare leaders are discovering that solving burnout and workforce challenges requires engaging the entire ecosystem, not just individual providers

It’s All Broken: The Imperative for Innovation in Nursing

A perfect storm of retirements and burnout is forcing the healthcare industry to reimagine how it supports frontline caregivers