Sustain Caregivers for a Sustainable Health Future

The Real Time HealthCare Podcast

(00:43) Urgent need to sustain caregivers to meet sustainability goals
(01:00) Nursing shortage worsening, record numbers leaving workforce
(01:42) 40-50% of nurses/doctors showing burnout
(02:13) Traveling nurses driving up labor costs
(02:27) Link between healthcare efficiency and sustainability
(03:04) Reducing length of stay cuts carbon emissions
(04:09) Challenges sustaining efficiency gains
(06:31) Disrupting routine impacts efficiency and length of stay
(07:06) Enabling routine improves efficiency and care
(09:13) Software can reduce caregiver cognitive load
(10:48) Creating an AI powered Command Center
(13:51) First year saw $20M savings and reduced length of stay
(14:28) Making caregivers' jobs easier
(16:47) Sustaining caregivers enables sustainability goals

We must sustain our caregivers if we’re going to achieve our other sustainability goals. See how leading health systems are using new approaches to take on skyrocketing labor costs and caregiver burnout in this episode of the Real Time Healthcare podcast.
Join us as Jeff Terry shares how GE HealthCare Command Centers use data from EMRs, devices and more to generate insights that boost efficiencies, increase capacity, and decrease patient wait times – while sustaining caregivers.

Facing unsustainable labor cost increases and high levels of staff burnout? Jeff Terry gives practical examples of how health systems are using new approaches to take on these enormous challenges. Guided by the principle that we must sustain our caregivers if we’re going to achieve our other sustainability goals, Terry shares how GE HealthCare Command Centers use information from EMRs, devices and more to generate insights that boost efficiencies, increase capacity, and decrease patient wait times – while protecting the wellbeing of caregivers.