Due to adjustments in health insurance and payment models, healthcare delivery systems are changing rapidly. Unfortunately, many health professionals have not been trained to properly take on these changes in delivery. This article describes strategies for how academic health centers can be utilized to retrain members of the existing health workforce to best adjust to…
This is Trish’s test for footer links on 12/22/23. A key goal of health reform in the US is to improve population health through expanded access to health insurance. Demand for high-quality, cost-effective, basic health services is anticipated to grow, particularly for underserved populations. However, there is also growing concern about the impact of health…
This is Trish’s test for footer links on 12/22/23. A key goal of health reform in the US is to improve population health through expanded access to health insurance. Demand for high-quality, cost-effective, basic health services is anticipated to grow, particularly for underserved populations. However, there is also growing concern about the impact of health…
Due to adjustments in health insurance and payment models, healthcare delivery systems are changing rapidly. Unfortunately, many health professionals have not been trained to properly take on these changes in delivery. This article describes strategies for how academic health centers can be utilized to retrain members of the existing health workforce to best adjust to…
Healthcare in the United States is currently undergoing dramatic and rapid changes. These changes will require adjustments in the ways we educate, deploy, and recruit new members of the healthcare workforce, and North Carolina is no exception. This article includes perspectives from many experts in education, policy, and practice about the state of North Carolinas…
Health care professionals are taking on new roles with medical assistants having one of the most rapidly evolving roles in new models of care. New roles are emerging that focus on coordinating and managing patients’ care within the health care system and “boundary spanning” functions that address the patient’s health care needs across health and…
An imminent question for health workforce planners is how an increasingly diverse US elderly population and a greater use of home and community-based services will affect demand for long-term care workers. In this article, researchers use national surveys to analyze current use of long-term care and the current long-term care workforce, and project demand for…
Although physician workforce planning approaches the need for physicians of each specialty individually, in fact many services are provided by physicians of several specialties. Further, there is some evidence that physicians adjust the scope and balance of services they provide when there are too few physicians of other specialties in their communities, although when this…
