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A new American Hospital Association report on workforce strategic planning trends says technology is well-positioned to help health systems combat professional staffing shortages.

Reid Oakes, global head and general manager for health industries at HP, talks about the company's approach to helping patients and clinicians get the most out of digital transformation.

The "NHS Long Term Plan" focuses on prevention, integrating care and improving patient experience, says Hassan Chaudhury, digital health specialist at Healthcare UK.

Ben Sych, strategy and partnership manager at the AMA, says no matter how compelling a solution looks to investors, physicians need data evidence to see value of adoption.

An integral part of Australia's digital health strategy is providing its healthcare workforce with resources to understand technology to deliver better care, says Dr. Meredith Makeham, chief medical adviser at the Australian Digital Health Agency.

For the newly-created role of chief research information officer, Cleveland Clinic has hired one of its own physicians to lead improvement in its network infrastructure and digital deployments, optimizing its IT to enable more innovative clinical research.

Patchwork Insights enables health organisations to gain insight in temporary staffing.

A broad look of HIT-related developments in the APAC region in 2019, as well as a glimpse of what might happen in 2020.  

A chief medical officer says 2020 will be a breakthrough year in making EHRs less stressful for providers if the growing avalanche of data is reined in with health IT that makes EHRs work better.