Workforce Problems? Technology As Strategy

Every meeting of health and human service managers ends up, at some point, talking about "the workforce problem"—the shortage of psychiatrists, the shortage of nurse practitioners, the shortage of direct support professionals, and the shortage of home care workers. (We've covered these issues recently in Staff Vacancies Just Got A Little More Important & Complicated, Workforce Shortages As A Strategy Issue, and Where Have All The Psychiatrists Gone?)

There are many reasons. Topping the list—demographics, professional choices, and the gap between reimbursement rates and compensation rates. On the demographic side of the issue, the aging population is . . .