Fixing healthcare’s staffing crisis | More on banks and risk

Week of April 24, 2023

For you this week: Hospital groups must get creative to support and retain burned-out clinicians. Why smaller banks need to manage risks on their own. Retailers on how loyalty isn’t what it used to be. How is “analytics driven” different from “data driven”? Plus: Explore property graphs in Oracle Database 23c Free—Developer Release.

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“The work is harder, the patients are sicker, and it's emotionally, physically taxing on the nurses and other personnel.”

— Leslie Martin, Chief Nursing Officer, Kingman Regional Medical Center

Healthcare’s staffing crisis

The shortage of qualified personnel is now the United States healthcare industry’s number one challenge, according to a survey by the American College of Healthcare Executives. The American Hospital Association (AHA) calls the situation a “national emergency.” Here’s how creative organizations are developing new staffing options to attract and retain nurses, doctors, and other clinicians.

Bank risks and rewards

Using Silicon Valley Bank as an example, Oracle Financial Services consultants look at how a failure to mitigate several risks can lead to a crisis situation, especially for midsize banks that expose themselves to risks as they look to grow in their fiercely competitive markets.

6 loyalty program trends

As consumer wants and needs evolve, so must retail loyalty programs. Here are six ways retailers are keeping pace, including creating emotional loyalty, giving consumers more control over their data, and delivering value through brand partnerships, such as earning airline miles through coffee shop purchases.

Data driven to analytics driven

In this first of a three-part series, Oracle’s Barry Mostert delves into the concepts of data and analytics, explaining that, for him, data driven is the ability to fetch data that looks at past events. Analytics driven, on the other hand, is about what has happened, what is happening, and what could happen next.

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FEATURED TECH

SQL for property graphs

Among the new features in Oracle Database 23c Free—Developer Release is support for creating and querying property graphs in SQL. In this blog, we will use Oracle VM VirtualBox and a demo dataset to create a property on two existing tables and then query them using the GRAPH_TABLE and MATCH constructs.

Hands-on tech

Serve ML models at scale with NVIDIA Triton Inference Server on Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes

Using a JSON Web Token with Oracle Fusion Analytics

Developing Saga participant code for compensating transactions