Team-Based Care
Researchers Investigate Primary Care Professional Burnout, Root Cause: Underutilized Team-based Care AAFP, 2018
Hospital Impact – The case for moving to a team care model Fierce Healthcare, 2018
Teamwork, empathic approach help clinic double vaccination rate American Medical Association, 2017
To address burnout’s underlying causes, look to team-based care American Medical Association, 2017
Team-Based Model Key to Achieving the Quadruple Aim at Reliant EHR Intelligence, 2017
Team-based care for children: Who should be included and who should lead? AAP News, 2017
Pharmacists Are Now Poised To Ease Physician Shortage - If Only They Could Get Paid For It Valley Public Radio, 2017
Fighting Chronic Disease Starts with Better Pediatric Care Harvard Business Review, 2017
Using Patient-Centered Team-Based Care to Improve Hypertension Prevention, Detection, and Management in Wisconsin 2017 Wisconsin Nurses Association, 2017
The Nurse Practitioner, Physician Assistant, And Pharmacist Pipelines: Continued Growth Health Affairs, 2015
2014 WCMEW & WNA Team-Based Care Conference WCMEW, Wisconsin Nurses Association, 2014
WCMEW in the News
Aging population presents double challenge in health care Wisconsin State Journal, 2017
WCMEW Conference Focus on Collaboration, Health Care Workforce Issues Wisconsin Hospital Association, 2017
New UW program aims to full a rural doctor shortage WQOW Interview with WCMEW Executive Director, George Quinn, 2017
WCMEW Strongly Supports Wisconsin Rural Initiative’s Focus on Health Care Workforce WCMEW Press Release, 2016
Key to Solving Wisconsin’s Physician Shortage May be the “86 Percent Equation” Wisconsin Hospital Association, 2016
Target medical education to needs of rural Wisconsin Journal Sentinel, 2013
Clinician Training
UW-Madison Program Places Med Students in Milwaukee’s Underserved Communities WUWM Milwaukee Public Radio, 2018
How EHRs, telemedicine slash barriers to team learning in med ed AMA Wire, 2018
The Case for Debt-Free Medical Degrees Health Affairs, 2018
Myths and Facts: The Physician Shortage American Association of Medical Colleges, 2017
Medical Expert : “Need a Doctor? Find One While You Still Can. What One Medical School Is Doing to Address the Shortage for Rural America.” New York Institute of Technology, 2017
Report: Nurse Education Demo Project Good for Primary Care MedPage Today, 2017
Carle Illinois College of Medicine to open July 2018 The Daily Illini, 2017
Med schools aim to train new breed of physician Modern Healthcare, 2017
Why Hospitals Are Pushing For More Nurses To Get Bachelor’s Degrees HuffPost, 2017
Nursing degrees increasing, but not on track to meet goal for acute care Reuters, 2017
Expansion of the Children's Hospitals Graduate Medical Education Payment Program Government Accountability Office, 2017
Howard Marklein: H.O.P.E bill expands addiction specialist training La Crosse Tribune, 2017
Senators Want to Address Doctor Shortage With New Bill U.S. News, 2017
Lawmakers back legislation addressing Nevada’s doctor shortage Las Vegas Review Journal, 2017
Teaching health centers vital to solving physician shortage in Iowa The Des Moines Register, 2017
Recruitment, Retention, & Sustainability
Researchers Investigate Primary Care Professional Burnout American Academy of Family Physicians, 2018
International Medical Graduates – A Critical Component of the Global Health Workforce JAMA, 2018
What are effective approaches for recruiting and retaining rural primary care health professionals? Academy Health, 2018
Surge in DO students could help ease physician shortage Chicago Business, 2018
As Wisconsin tries to lure young adults, how do certain communities succeed? UW-Madison, 2018
Recruiting Rural Healthcare Providers Today: A Systematic Review of Training Program Success and Determinants of Geographic Choices Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2017
Addressing Quadruple Aim, Physician Burnout Key to Risk Success RevCycle Intellicence, 2017
US Physician Workforce is Getting Old, Fast HealthLeaders Media, 2017
Getting into Medical School in the U.S. is Becoming Harder U.S. News, 2017
Professional Satisfaction and the Career Plans of US Physicians Mayo Clinic Proceedings, 2017
The Physician Gap: How we can encourage US physicians-in-training to choose primary care Brown Political Review, 2017
Explore: How many young doctors does your state retain after residency? STAT, 2017
2017 Review of Physician and Advanced Practitioner Recruiting Incentives Merritt Hawkins, 2017
New doctor recruiting on the verge of a 'feeding frenzy' Fierce Healthcare, 2017
Why America Needs Foreign Medical Graduate The New York Times, 2017
Physician Burnout Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 2017
Protecting interns and other physicians from depression and suicide STAT, 2017
Public service loan forgiveness can help fix the shortage of primary care and rural physicians STAT, 2017
Physicians Hesitant to Retire, Study Finds Physicians Practice, 2017
Putting The Scalpel Down: When Should Physicians Retire? American Council on Science and Health, 2017
Rural Workforce
Reinventing Rural Health Care: A Case Study of Seven Upper Midwest States Bipartisan Policy Center, 2018
Health Disparities Affect Millions in Rural U.S. Communities Association of American Medical Colleges, 2017
In Rural Kansas, Telemedicine Boosts Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants Healthcare Analytics News, 2017
Supply and Distribution of the Behavioral Health Workforce in Rural America Rural Health Research & Policy Centers, 2017
Rural America’s Childbirth Crisis: The Fight to Save Whitney Brown The Wall Street Journal, 2017
WI Office of Rural Health Releases New Workforce Maps Wisconsin Office of Rural Health
Wisconsin faces home care workforce challenge, report says Wisconsin State Journal, 2017
Reassessing the Data on Whether a Physician Shortage Exists JAMA, 2017
New Research Details Risk of National OB-GYN Shortage PR Newswire, 2017
U.S. Facing an Imminent OB-GYN Shortage Daily Beast, 2017
Health Care Just Became the U.S.’s Largest Employer The Atlantic, 2018
Physician Workforce Trends And Their Implications For Spending Growth Health Affairs Blog, 2017
Modeling the Health Workforce and Characteristics of a High Performing Health Care System Alliance for Health Policy, 2017
Nursing Economic$: Improving Nursing Workforce Forecasts Montana State University, 2017
Medical school debts run $180,000 on average per student STAT, 2017
Forecasting the Supply of and Demand for Oncologists AAMC, 2007
Shortages & Trends
Black female doctors represent only tiny fraction of all doctors nationwide The Mercury News, 2018
Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities Workforce Diversity National Conference of State Legislatures, 2014
Does Your Hospital Reflect the Community It Serves? American Hospital Association, 2004
Fact Sheet: The Need for Diversity in the Health Care Workforce Health Professionals for Diversity Coalition
Diversity
Tech & Telehealth
Telehealth Barriers Should Be Defined by Access, Not Geography mHealth Intelligence, 2017
Is It Time for a New Medical Specialty? The Medical Virtualist JAMA, 2018
Report: Nearly every state has updated its telehealth legislation since last year Mobi Health News, 2017
Three telehealth services on the rise Managed Healthcare Executive, 2017
CMS shakes up telemedicine, will pay for more services MedCity News, 2017
CCHP’s State Telehealth Report Shows Gradual Advances in Coverage mHealth Intelligence, 2017
New Rule Would Give VA Doctors National Telehealth Privileges mHealth Intelligence, 2017
Study: States’ Private Payer Laws Are Harming Telehealth Growth mHealth Intelligence, 2017
Telehealth Will Only Benefit Seniors if They Know It’s Available mHealth Intelligence, 2017
Limited reimbursement hinders telehealth adoption Modern Healthcare, 2017
Telemedicine Technology Helps Doctors Treat Patients, No Matter the Distance HealthTech, 2017
Telehealth Counseling Study Shows Value Against In-Person Visits mHealth Intelligence, 2017
Telemedicine: Redefining Health Care Delivery U.S. Telecom, 2017
The Impact of E-Visits on Visit Frequencies and Patient Health: Evidence from Primary Care SSRN, 2018
Study: Telehealth increased office visits, had minimal health benefits Mobi Health News, 2017
Telehealth Programs Look Past Reimbursement to Find Clinical Value mHealth Intelligence, 2017
Care Delivery Reforms
The Role of the Health Care Workforce in Delivery System Reform Alliance for Health Policy, Briefing Series, 2017
The healthcare workforce needs to adapt to the industry's current reality Healthcare DIVE, 2017
Doctor shortage forces Denver VA hospital to postpone surgeries Healthcare DIVE, 2017
Full-spectrum family practice can still include obstetrics Family Practice News, 2017
A hospital without patients Politico, 2017
Dr. Barbe: We need more time with patients, less at the keyboard AMA Wire, 2017
Military medics and corpsmen could help fill the shortage of primary care providers STAT, 2017
Burgess leads hearing on need to reauthorize essential programs that increase health workforce The Ripon Advance, 2017
Tapping Non-Physician Clinicians to Address Patient Care Access Patient EngagementHIT, 2017
Where chronic care management and population health meet Healthcare IT News, 2017
Getting Your "Value-Based Care House” in Order by Embracing Primary Care Healthcare Informatics, 2017
Strong roots: Home visiting programs expand medical home into communities AAP News, 2017
Pharmacists Are Now Poised To Ease Physician Shortage - If Only They Could Get Paid For It Valley Public Radio, 2017
Behavioral Health Workforce
Workforce Survey 2018 Behavioral Health Executive, 2018
The mental health workforce is 'reaching a cliff edge'. What can be done? The Guardian, 2017
Shrinking the Psychiatrist Shortage Managed Care, 2016
Wisconsin Behavioral Health Workforce, 2015 Rural Health Research & Policy Centers, 2015
More
Physicians bring economic health to Wisconsin’s communities AMA, WMS, 2018
U.S. Health Workforce Chartbook HRSA, 2018
Welcome to the Workforce Issue Politico, 2017
How foreign-trained doctors are filling the health care gap in Greater Minnesota MinnPost, 2017
Wisconsin Ranks 2nd in Nation in Electronic Health Records WI Department of Health Services, 2017
Across the pond, Britain luring U.S. physician assistants to solve its own doctor shortage FierceHealthcare, 2017
Tiber Health wants to solve the world’s doctor shortage TechCrunch, 2017
On the Record with Dr. John Raymond, Medical College of Wisconsin Pharmacy School Wisconsin Health News, 2017
Doctor Shortage Under Obamacare? It Didn’t Happen The New York Times, 2017
Home Health Care: Shouldn’t It Be Work Worth Doing? The New York Times, 2017
Paging Dr. Freelance: Hospitals’ use of contract doctors soars amid physician shortage STAT, 2017
AMA: Reversing DACA puts patient care at risk, could worsen doctor shortage Healthcare Finance, 2017
Advanced practitioners called on to ease cancer care shortage, but challenges remain Modern Healthcare, 2017
North Idaho combats physician shortage Spokane Journal, 2017
Customizing Health IT to Support Physician Workflow and Reduce Burden Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 2017
California needs health-care workers, and it’s asking for help Los Angeles Daily News, 2017
Georgia Takes Steps to Strengthen the Health Care Workforce Georgia Budget and Policy Institute, 2017
The Robot Will See You Now American Academy of PAs, 2016
Statistical Profile of Certified Physician Assistants by State National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants, 2015
The Costs of Training Internal Medicine Residents in the U.S. Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine, 2014