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2022 in Review: Positively Impacting Lives with You
In many ways, 2022 has been a challenging year. The fight against COVID-19 raged on. Global conflict shook our sense of security. Economic uncertainty left businesses and households with difficult decisions to make. Yet, through it all, our communities joined together...
Recession-Proof Your Business with a Contract Workforce
Findings from a Bloomberg economist survey indicate that over the next 12 months, the probability of a recession stands at 47.5%.1 CEOs are even more convinced a recession is on the way—91% are predicting one in the next year, and only 34% of those think it will be...
How Leaders Can Get the Most Out of Their Technology Staffing Partnerships
As I’m sure you’ve experienced firsthand, our workforce as a whole has seen plenty of ups and downs since the start of the pandemic. It’s a story that emerges in our Technology Workforce Trends Report as we assess the state of the hiring landscape as 2022 comes to a...
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Digital Transformation in Life Sciences is Here, But Are Companies Ready?
Digital transformation in life sciences was supercharged at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. During the days of lockdowns and social distancing, the need for telehealth and remote clinical trials to better serve patients spurred quick action from companies. Supply...
Is Manufacturing Employment Bouncing Back?
It’s been a challenging start to the 21st century for manufacturing professionals. During the first ten years of the 2000s, the Great Recession sent the industry into a downward spiral. Then, just as companies were climbing back from all-time lows, the COVID-19...
All Aboard for Training to Align Allied Health Skills
The seas of allied health staffing seem turbulent. A large population of workers has reached age 65, prompting a retirement ramp-up. At the same time, fewer students are studying allied health professions, hindering the ability to replenish a shrinking workforce. The...
DIA 2022 Takeaways from the Medix Life Sciences Team
First and foremost, let me just say that it feels great to be back! After years of virtual events and digital networking, I was excited to have the opportunity to attend the DIA 2022 Global Annual Meeting in-person with my Medix Life Sciences teammates. Leaders...
Getting Creative to Expand the Clinical Research Talent Pool
When you ask someone how they started their career in clinical research, all too often the response is, “I just sort of fell into it!” While this can be a curious phenomenon at first, the more you think about it, the more it makes sense. Roles at research sites...
5 Hard-to-Fill Healthcare Roles You’re Overlooking
Before the global pandemic, the healthcare industry was facing a serious talent shortage in plenty of areas. In 2015, a Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy study predicted a nursing shortage of 190,000 nurses by 2020. A team of healthcare industry...
Maslow’s Hierarchy of EHR User Needs
After graduating from nursing school way too many years ago and devoting the majority of my career to healthcare IT and informatics, I can still recall a few key items from my freshman introduction to nursing classes. Beyond being able to reliably recall at least 60...
The Impact of European Medical Device Regulation (MDR) on Engineering Employment
In many ways, the COVID-19 pandemic brought the healthcare industry to a halt. An all-hands-on-deck strategy was needed to treat those critically affected by the virus and protect others from infection. This also meant the necessary delay of countless elective...
Clinical Research Sites: Invest in Your Recruiters and They Will Invest in You!
HR and recruiting functions can vary greatly across sites depending on factors like organizational structure and the size of the research program. As a professional working for a staffing and workforce solutions provider, I’ve seen it all. In some cases, recruiters...
Video: The Growing Need for Nurses
Long before the COVID-19 pandemic, the nursing field was facing a staggering rate of turnover. The global health crisis has only exasperated these conditions. Consider this: The American Association of Critical Care Nurses recently polled nurses and found that 66...
Life Sciences: Understanding the Universe of Clinical Research Outsourcing Strategies
There’s no room for stagnation in life sciences. In an industry that demands innovation, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device companies are seeking quicker, cost-effective strategies to accelerate product development. “The life sciences industry is...
The Links Between EHR Dissatisfaction, Clinician Burnout and Turnover
Burnout has received much press recently, and rightly so. Clinician burnout was rising before the COVID-19 pandemic, and the pandemic significantly accelerated burnout. In an article published in Critical Care Medicine assessing burnout rates early in the pandemic,...