Healthcare is heading into a structural workforce shortfall that recruiting will not solve. HRSA projects a shortage of nearly 700,000 physicians and nurses by 2037, while 55 percent of healthcare employees plan to job-search in 2026. The only realistic path forward is extending the capacity of the clinicians you already have through AI.

Nurses Week 2026 runs May 6 to 12, with the ANA's theme The Power of Nurses anchoring the week. The data tells a harder story behind the celebration: more than half of U.S. healthcare workers plan to switch jobs in 2026, 41.5 percent of departing nurses cite burnout as the primary cause, and turnover-driven costs reach an estimated $4.6 billion annually with roughly $52,350 to replace a single RN

The remote patient monitoring market is projected to reach $88.3 billion by 2035, but only 3 percent of health systems have deployed agentic AI in live clinical workflows. The gap between AI hype and real-world deployment is where most health systems will lose the next decade. Agentic AI alone does not solve chronic care, because the bottleneck is operating model, not algorithm.