http://talkradionews.com/2008/05/nursing-shortage-could-hinder-health-care-reform/ The Talk Radio News Service is the only information news service dedicated to serving the talk radio community. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:46:24 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://talkradionews.com/2008/05/nursing-shortage-could-hinder-health-care-reform/comment-page-1/#comment-5184 richard Tue, 06 May 2008 22:07:14 +0000 http://talkradionews.com/?p=18758#comment-5184 Healthcare may be the fastest growing industry, but it also suffers from a horrendous lack of computerization. While your fast food order is now entirely automated, most hospitals still do their record-keeping on paper. That's where nursing informatics professionals come in. Nearly 100,000 Americans die each year from preventable medical errors, which digital record-keeping could help to eliminate. Nursing informatics specialists, with training in both nursing and health information technology, bridge the gap between IT and patient care--an essential part of healthcare in the future. The Nurse Company Realizes this, and it has become their goal to intergrate technology to bring the nurse profession up to speed. Shawn D. Mathis, the CEO of The Nurse Company, calls this Nurse Profession 2.0. He has also written a book by the same title, detailing the use of technology to solve the global nursing shortage. (http://www.thenursecompany.com) Healthcare may be the fastest growing industry, but it also suffers from a horrendous lack of computerization. While your fast food order is now entirely automated, most hospitals still do their record-keeping on paper. That’s where nursing informatics professionals come in. Nearly 100,000 Americans die each year from preventable medical errors, which digital record-keeping could help to eliminate. Nursing informatics specialists, with training in both nursing and health information technology, bridge the gap between IT and patient care–an essential part of healthcare in the future. The Nurse Company Realizes this, and it has become their goal to intergrate technology to bring the nurse profession up to speed. Shawn D. Mathis, the CEO of The Nurse Company, calls this Nurse Profession 2.0. He has also written a book by the same title, detailing the use of technology to solve the global nursing shortage.
(http://www.thenursecompany.com)

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