Healthcare leaders and policymakers in Arkansas are working to strengthen the state’s healthcare workforce through a range of efforts, such as increasing the number of medical residency positions in the state and pursuing federal funds for recruiting and retaining healthcare professionals in rural areas. Monitoring these efforts to measure their success will be challenging without a standardized method for collecting data about the state’s healthcare professionals, ACHI President and CEO Craig Wilson writes in a guest column for Talk Business & Politics.
Fortunately, Wilson notes, there is a framework for standardizing data collection across health professions that Arkansas could adopt, as several other states have already done.
For more on this topic, see our Arkansas Healthcare Workforce page and our interactive dashboards profiling the state’s primary care physician, OB-GYN, and general surgeon workforces.
