Rising geriatric population is increasing the demand for healthcare services around the globe. However, healthcare providers are seeking answers to address the growing physician shortage, regulatory outbreak, technological challenges, and choking nurse staffing levels. Below are some key trends that affect both employers and employees and are expected to impact talent recruitment and retention strategies across healthcare.

The Talent Shortage

According to the Association of American Medical Colleges, by 2030, there will be a deficit of nearly 105,000 doctors in the U.S. According to research from The Economist Intelligence Unit commissioned by Prudential Retirement, two-thirds of executives at hospitals with more than 1,000 employees are currently facing a nursing shortage or expect one within three years. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the healthcare sector is expected to add some 2.3 million jobs by 2024; unfortunately, there is not enough talent to fill these positions. In order to reduce this gap, healthcare staffing professionals will need to rely on technology – whether for advanced options for searching and shortlisting candidates, accurately identifying open roles for workers coming off assignments, or personalizing conversations with the smartphone-enabled workforce.

Staff Retention

According to Research Gate, nearly 18% of new RNs resign from their first nursing job within the first year, and a third within two years. Another research by Medscape Nurse Career Satisfaction Report shows that 76% of RNs indicate that if they could choose their career all over again, they would still want to become a nurse. Healthcare administrators will be putting all efforts into identifying issues within their workplace culture while making the necessary changes to improve their employee satisfaction rates.

Unconventional Hiring

Healthcare organizations are regularly facing the challenge of improving patient satisfaction rates, for them addressing patient satisfaction rates is equally important as decreasing turnover rates of their staff. The complicated ways by which the organizations find quality staff is evolving to meet the increased demand of qualified nurses. Selling your organization as a "brand" to attract more candidates is becoming more important than workplace culture. Organizations with a bad reputation not only struggle to attract good candidates but also struggle to retain employees.

Technological Advancement

Technology always tends to fall in the trend lists for numerous industries.  This year is no different, as technology plays a critical role in healthcare and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. Technology solutions are utilizing streamlined workflows, improved diagnostic methods, and improved communication and connectivity. The healthcare staffing industry continues to adopt technological strategies to recruit clinical talent for healthcare organizations more efficiently and seamlessly than ever before. It also appears that human recruiters will integrate with technology and play a critical role within the automated talent acquisition processes of a supply-constrained healthcare market.

Leading healthcare organizations have found these emerging healthcare recruitment trends to be useful for attracting and engaging top talent. For today’s healthcare and life sciences organizations, finding and retaining the right people to deliver and support key services is an ongoing challenge. We know that the demand for qualified people is outstripping supply, particularly among healthcare providers and the pharmaceutical industry segments.

vTech Solution’s dedicated recruitment consultants and staffing managers bring extensive healthcare and life sciences industry expertise, deep market knowledge, and experience. Our team of domain experts provides end-to-end support in areas such as clinical and healthcare staffing, ATS (Applicant Tracking System) implementation, and sourcing support services to Healthcare, Pharma and Life Sciences industry clients

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These passwords are hashed or encrypted and need to be cracked before they can be used. These databases, depending on the sites, consist of user information such as location, personal details, and social media authentication tokens. By far, there are no payment or bank card details published in the black-market sale listing.

Hijacked databases of the following websites can be purchased from the Dream Market cyber-souk, located in the Tor network:

• Dubsmash - 162 million accounts, MyFitnessPal - 151 million accounts, MyHeritage - 92 million accounts, ShareThis - 41 million accounts, HauteLook - 28 million accounts, Animoto - 25 million accounts, EyeEm - 22 million accounts, 8fit - 20 million accounts, Whitepages - 18 million accounts, Fotolog - 16 million accounts, 500px - 15 million accounts, Armor Games - 11 million accounts, BookMate - 8 million accounts, CoffeeMeetsBagel - 6 million accounts, Artsy - 1 million accounts, and DataCamp - 700,000 accounts.

The hacker claimed to have exploited the security vulnerabilities within web apps to gain remote-code execution to extract user account data. All of the databases are right now being promoted separately by a single hacker on the dark web, as per reports.

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The war over how best to protect the US-Mexico border is severely impacting the nation’s cybersecurity and with the longest federal government shutdown in the history of this country underway, Our cyber defense capabilities have taken a massive blow.

While the short-term impact is severe, the long-term effects could prove even more catastrophic. According to several recent reports, with every passing day, we have started relying on something similar to ‘luck’ than ‘strategy or systems’ to keep our cyber ecosystem secure.

Several federal agencies including the Department of State, Homeland Security, Department of Agriculture, Department of Commerce and Department of Housing and Urban Development, The Environmental Protection Agency, Internal Revenue Service, The National Institute of Standards and Technology and the National Park Service have lost funding due to the shutdown. According to Tom Gann, chief of public policy at security research firm McAfee, “Many of these agencies are on the hit-list for hackers, organizations that specialize in high-end security intrusions and nation-state actors.”

"Cybersecurity at these agencies and departments could be degraded because lower-level government employees who bear the brunt of the shutdown often are on the front lines of basic computer security monitoring work," Gann said. “A major part of cybersecurity work at these agencies is performed by contracted employees who are also not available, as they are not getting paid during the government shut down,” Gann said.

Former Federal Chief Information Security Officer, Gregory Touhill, said that during the closure, “skilled people qualified to respond to the alerts/alarms may not be in place or even available due to the shutdown.”

Another notable point is that during the shutdown, it will be easy for hackers to define what the United States considers to be its critical systems. They will be looking at detailed activities in our cybersecurity ecosystem.

By current estimates, roughly 800,000 federal workers are currently unavailable include:

Currently, several of NIST weblinks effectively lead you to a dead end.

There is a growing concern among government's cybersecurity professionals that hackers will indeed take advantage of the partial shutdown, tampering with sensitive government data or stealing citizen’s information. Cybersecurity is hard enough job with a full crew. It’s a battle just to keep up with emerging cyber threat. Working with less than half strength means that we are at significant risk; The impact on our nation’s security grows with each passing day. While there is no doubt that all the agencies and departments have a good plan in place to keep essential systems and functions running, but with bare-bones staff there is only so much that can be done.

“Cyber threats don’t operate on Washington’s political timetable, and they don’t stop because of a shutdown,”  Lisa Monaco, former assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism, told Axios.