Cracking the Code: Deploying an AI-enabled Nursing Workforce

There is pain and reward when designing artificial intelligence that improves frontline staff experience, said Mercy Chief Nurse Executive Betty Jo Rocchio in her keynote at the HIMSS AI in Healthcare Forum.After putting artificial intelligence into systems where nurses are used to working, Mercy has been able to realize $52 million in retaining talent and engaging its workforce, a 20% improvement in nurses' electronic health records experiences and a 17% increase in nurse efficiency, the health system’s SVP Betty Jo Rocchio said Thursday at the HIMSS AI in Healthcare Forum.Healthcare has a "tremendous responsibility as well as opportunity for human flourishing," Rocchio, the chief nurse executive and a practicing nurse, said.

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Hal Wolf, president and CEO of HIMSS, the parent company of Healthcare IT News, kicked off the forum by discussing the anomalies that healthcare continues to face. The skilled worker challenge will keep coming back regularly – "one that has every healthcare system looking up and thinking how am I going to use new tools to improve or stretch out my capability to take care of people," he said.Back in 2018, healthcare was expecting a gap of 13 million clinicians globally by 2035, which the World Health Organization modified to 18 million about a year ago, he noted.Rocchio agreed. "I just don't think we can wait another 10 to 15 years to figure out if we're going to have the people that we need in the model of care that we deliver today," she said.

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