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

Hire for personality, not skills

• Key takeaway: While interviewing and hiring for skills is important, it shouldn’t be the sole focus of recruiters.
  

The new nursing shortage

• Key takeaway: The recent recession made it more difficult for entry-level nurses to find work, as more experienced nurses put off retirement and stayed in the job force.
  

Total talent solutions: Technology enables efficiency and effectiveness

• Key takeaway: For integrated talent acquisition solutions to work, it was clear that technology is a key factor.
  

The difficulty of technology disruption in healthcare

• Key takeaway: Bush took aim at complacent large healthcare organizations who expose their flank to disruptors, but fail to use technology effectively to expose others’ flanks, instead relying on an older generation of technology to lock in physicians and patients.
  

Healthcare IT priorities 

• Key takeaway: Healthcare has always been a highly regulated industry, but in the last few years requirements for implementing and documenting digital healthcare systems have been piling up so fast that IT organizations have little time for anything else — including making sure the systems they already have in place are being used effectively.