Five articles in the last week from the world of healthcare staffing and technology.

AHQR national reports indicate that hospital care is improving

• Key takeaway: Three-quarters of hospital quality measures showed significant improvement, compared with 60 percent for home health and nursing home care, and about half for ambulatory settings.
  

See the person, not the patient

• Key takeaway: The nurse knocks on the door, just as a formality, and doesn’t pause before entering the room.
  

Let your suppliers specialize

• Key takeaway: With most contingent workforce programs, benchmarking is a great place to start in order to identify savings opportunities. It makes sense.
  

The impact of mobility on contingent labor programs

• Key takeaway: In recent years, the pervasiveness of mobile devices like smartphones and tablets in the enterprise has changed the workplace.
  

Nursing shortage ‘going to get worse’

• Key takeaway: The job growth for nurses is anything but constant. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects a 19 percent grown within nursing jobs between 2012 and 2022 — more than most occupations.