This quarter Shearwater Health partnered with The Health Management Academy to host a virtual roundtable discussion on the topic of overcoming clinical labor shortages. Other panel participants included members from Integris Health, Memorial Hermann Health System, and Henry Ford Health System. Melissa Lacy (EVP, Quality & Performance) was a panelist for the webinar where she helped facilitate discussions about workforce innovation focusing on:
-Which factors, beyond staffing shortages and constraints, are driving health system leaders to rethink workforce and workflow
-How HR, finance, and nursing leaders are evaluating opportunities for innovation/workforce redesign, managing change, and measuring success
-How onsite and remote teams may collaborate to increase scale, achieve positive clinical impact, and reduce cost
Overall, the webinar was a great success and we are appreciative of all who attended and contributed to make the event so great! It’s a privilege to be able to collaborate with other members in the healthcare space who are working to solve similar challenges. The two main themes emerged:
-Many health system leaders are trying to reimagine workflow while maximizing the technology they already must reduce the cost barrier to process change. Henry Ford Health System and INTEGRIS discussed how their organization are maximizing their partnerships with EPIC.
-Workflows can be broken up and allocated to different groups to create efficiencies and allow for nurses to work at the peak of their practice. Memorial Hermann discussed how they reallocated work to case managers and outsources certain tasks to improve workflow efficiency.
