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In this edition of "Workplace Re-Entry in the Healthcare Industry," Zoom CIO Advisor Bill Shickolovich and U Penn Medicine CIO Michael Restuccia discuss the healthcare industry's shifting of more operations from on-prem to remote.

Fears that vaccine mandates will exacerbate worker shortages miss the bigger picture, says Fisher Phillips labor expert.   

Clinical outcomes for undocumented immigrants receiving emergent dialysis show higher death rate, greater length of stay and poorer quality of life.

Many healthcare workers are now nine months past the first round of vaccines, says AHA's CEO and president.

The long-term care sector is in the midst of a worsening labor shortage, but it’s not the only part of healthcare struggling.   

Payers want to know how to change the experience to make access easy for beneficiaries, says Solera Health CEO Mary Langowski.

Shafiq Rab, Wellforce's chief digital officer and system CIO, discusses why the health system moved its entire Epic infrastructure and app ecosystem to AWS cloud.

Its teams are overwhelmed and hospitals are running out of staffed beds for patients, Intermountain says. 

Kassaundra McKnight-Young, senior clinical informaticist at the Truman Medical Center, says informaticists' work brings improvement to every aspect of care and allows nurses to spend more time with patients and families.

A commissioned survey from Modern Health and Forrester Research shows a disconnect in perceptions of offerings.