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Subscribe43% of nurses are considering leaving the profession. That’s up from 17% in 2019. And a third of the healthcare workforce in general, doctors, technicians, folks that work in the hospital are unhappy and thinking about leaving. Scary numbers. We've got to do something. We've got to make changes.
Sanaz Cordes, MD, World Wide Technology
Even as I look at who's signing up for the COVID-19 vaccines, I can break it into demographics, ages, races and specifics to make sure that our clinical leaders are being informed if we're inadvertently leaving out any segment of the population. We're constantly evolving and learning from the data and helping people to better understand the importance of preventative wellness and care.
Aaron Miri, Dell Medical School
A lot of the manufacturers don't have a process for updating software or technology within the medical device itself. The other challenge is there's just so many. At Cook Children's we have 20,000 medical devices on our network. If you can imagine trying to manage, keep up and ensure that they're all at the right software code levels or even just still in good functioning order. Something of that magnitude is really hard for an organization to manage when you don't have good tools to do that. So pile the security risk on with the fact that there's so many tools or devices out there today, you really kind of create this perfect storm of issues that need to be addressed in healthcare.
Theresa Meadows, Cook Children's
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