Dr. Rupal Malani

documentation, let's say, that they do once they've gone home and fulfilled their personal responsibilities.

The nursing shortage is also very real.

The U.S.

could have a nursing shortage by our estimates of up to 400,000 by 2030.

And the specifics and nature of that shortage, of course, varies by geography.

In some places, you know, worse.

In some places, slightly better.

And while the more acute challenges around the pandemic are largely behind us, and in fact, nursing turnover has been approaching pre-pandemic levels, but the long-term shortage is really still on providers' minds.

And they're pursuing a number of strategies, including number one,

upstream, bolstering the talent pipeline and programs to fill targeted skill gaps.

The second is strengthening internal onboarding and training, including support for managers, because they're realizing that we need to buoy the support for a less tenured workforce.

They're also creating professional development pathways and programs in that regard.

And then the third is once you've created this pipeline and supported onboarding and training, other ways that they can focus on and improve retention.

And those strategies are often aimed at deploying clinical resources at exactly the right place and time and doing the work that only they can do.

So examples of this include enhancing scheduling flexibility,

piloting technology tools, including AI, to reduce administrative burden and increase patient-facing time.

On that one in particular, by our estimates, there's roughly 10% to 20% net of a nurse's time that is spent during a 12-hour shift on activities that can be optimized with technology.

So think documentation, searching for supplies, med administration, even handoff.

And in our latest survey of nurses, which we do in partnership with the American Nurses Foundation, we found that roughly two-thirds of nurses would actually like to see more AI tools.

But they are also keenly sensitive to the perception that there may be trade-offs between lessening workloads and possibly compromising medical quality and care.