Executive Summary: Two Incomplete Options, No Complete Solution
Part I of this white paper series established that the three primary cost centers of clinical operations — workforce churn, preventable adverse events, and regulatory non-compliance liabilities — are downstream outcomes of an enterprise education model mismatched to the shift-based clinical reality.[1] Specifically, Part I demonstrated that:
- The Churn Impact: Bedside RN turnover costs the average acute care hospital $5.19 million annually ($60,090 per departure), while 22.3% of new hire RNs quit within their first 12 months due to poor onboarding and practice anxiety.[1]
- The Harm Impact: Preventable healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) consume $28.4 billion to $45.0 billion in direct U.S. hospital costs annually, while NHS clinical negligence claims generate £3.1 billion in annual payouts and £60.0 billion in long-term liabilities.[2]
- The Readiness Gap: Academic research confirms that less than 10% of newly graduated registered nurses possess safe entry-level clinical judgment, contributing directly to the 65% of clinical care errors caused by breakdowns in critical reasoning.[9]
- The Compliance Mirage: Health systems rely on desktop LMS completion logs to satisfy regulators, creating a false sense of security that collapses during unannounced CMS, Joint Commission, or CQC bedside surveys.[4]
Having quantified the financial and clinical impacts of this operational deficit, Part II critically examines the commercial software market.[10] The analysis demonstrates that the healthcare training technology market offers two incomplete options and no complete solution.[10] Incumbents prove completion; challengers prove distribution; neither proves point-of-care competence.[10] Evaluating these product paradigms against the costs established in Part I illustrates how health systems can eliminate the Missing Middle to achieve auditable clinical safety.[10]
Headline Performance Indicators
| Metric Category | Baseline Statistic | Citable Impact / Benchmark | Primary Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Incumbent Engagement Reality | 13% Daily Login / 6 Min Use | 91% of enterprise organizations deploy intranet/LMS portals, but frontline usage sits at 6 minutes daily with only 13% daily access | Social Edge Consulting / SWOOP Analytics[6] |
| Correlational Claim Gap | 127% Sales vs. 0% Medico-Legal Proof | Axonify claims 127% sales KPI gains, but statistical engagement correlations provide zero legal defensibility in malpractice litigation | Axonify Product Marketing / Medico-Legal Standard[36] |
| Paper & Speed Deficit | 44% Paper Reliance | 44% of healthcare organizations rely on paper binders for >50% of frontline workflows, while 67% use ad-hoc email/phone broadcasts | Skedulo Q4 Deskless Research Report[19] |
| Regulatory & Negligence Exposure | £60.0B Liability / CMS IJ Fines | NHS clinical negligence liability reaches £60.0B; CMS Immediate Jeopardy triggers daily CMPs and loss of Medicare payment status | UK National Audit Office / CMS 10-K Disclosures[2] |
Key Findings
Key Finding 1
Dominant healthcare LMS incumbents (HealthStream, Relias, Cornerstone OnDemand, Kallidus, Workday) market regulatory compliance tracking and completion reporting, but fail to verify point-of-care skill execution or demonstrate reductions in bedside turnover, HAI rates, or practice-readiness deficits.[5]
Key Finding 2
Vendor claims linking high quiz engagement or microlearning streaks to operational metrics are correlational; they do not provide the auditable, attributed, timestamped evidence required to survive CMS Immediate Jeopardy surveys, CQC inspections, or medical malpractice litigation.[4]
Key Finding 3
Speed-focused micro-content tools (e.g., 7taps) reduce authoring friction, but formalize and scale un-vetted "word-of-mouth" instruction without protocol version control, instant retraction, or clinical governance gates.[19]
Key Finding 4
Deploying un-gated AI content generators or generic LLM wrappers risks generating hallucinated clinical guidance, exposing health systems to HIPAA, GDPR, UK DPA, and PDPA violations while crossing into un-cleared Clinical Decision Support (CDS) territory.[4]
Section 1: The Incumbent Paradigm — Mistaking Compliance for Competence
1.1 Sourced Dossier on Dominant Incumbents & Stated Value Propositions
The healthcare learning technology market is dominated by incumbent platforms that fall into three primary software categories: specialized healthcare LMS providers, generic enterprise Human Capital Management (HCM) software, and regional statutory compliance engines.[37] A detailed analysis of their commercial positioning and product capabilities reveals a shared structural limitation: every incumbent platform measures administrative course completion rather than point-of-care clinical execution.[5]
Incumbent Healthcare LMS Market Structure
Specialized Healthcare LMS
HealthStream, Relias
Focus: CE/CME catalog, credentialing, CMS/TJC completion tracking
Enterprise HCM & General LMS
Cornerstone, Workday, Kallidus, Totara
Focus: Corporate taxonomy, HRIS integration, annual compliance logs
Regional Statutory Portals
Skills for Health eLfH, Regional MOH
Focus: Core Skills Training Framework (CSTF) desktop e-learning
North America Market Incumbents
1. HealthStream (HealthStream Learning Center, CredentialStream, ShiftWizard)
Stated Value Proposition & Core Strengths: HealthStream is the market leader across U.S. acute care health systems, serving over 100 enterprise healthcare networks.[39] Its primary strengths include deep integration with healthcare credentialing ecosystems (CredentialStream), scheduling platforms (ShiftWizard), and extensive libraries of accredited Continuing Education (CE/CME/CNE) courses.[38]
The Competence & Outcome Gap: HealthStream's commercial messaging focuses on "workforce development, credentialing, and regulatory compliance management".[38] The system tracks whether a clinician completed assigned e-learning courses or passed multiple-choice post-tests. HealthStream's marketing and documentation do not claim or demonstrate direct reductions in bedside RN turnover ($60,090 per exit), reductions in hospital-acquired infection rates ($28.4B–$45B annual impact), or verified improvements in entry-level clinical judgment.[1] The architecture assumes desktop interaction, tracking transcript completion rather than bedside procedural verification.[5]
2. Relias (Relias Learning)
Stated Value Proposition & Core Strengths: Relias dominates post-acute, skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), home health, and behavioral health sectors.[37] Its strengths lie in pre-packaged compliance training content aligned with CMS regulations, state-mandated training guidelines, and specialized curricula for dementia, abuse, and infection control.[37]
The Competence & Outcome Gap: Relias positions its platform around "compliance management, staff onboarding, and regulatory survey readiness".[37] However, Relias tracks course completions and audit logs for regulatory surveys rather than observing physical skill execution at the bedside.[5] Despite widespread Relias deployment across home care and post-acute care, home health caregiver turnover remains high at a median rate of 79.2%, while CNA turnover averages 80% annually — confirming that completion-centric training does not prevent frontline attrition.[10]
3. Cornerstone OnDemand & Workday Learning
Stated Value Proposition & Core Strengths: These enterprise HCM/LMS platforms serve large multi-industry enterprises, offering global HRIS data synchronization, centralized talent management, and enterprise-wide learning taxonomy structures.[1]
The Competence & Outcome Gap: Designed for desk-based corporate environments, these platforms rely on corporate email accounts, desktop workstations, and structured LMS navigation paths.[6] They treat clinical protocols like standard corporate compliance courses.[5] They lack point-of-care skill sign-off workflows, clinical preceptor verification mechanisms, and mobile-native offline capabilities required by shift-based bedside care teams.[6]
4. Axonify
Stated Value Proposition & Core Strengths: Axonify targets frontline workers across retail, logistics, and healthcare using microlearning, daily quiz questions, and spaced-repetition algorithms delivered via mobile devices.[36]
The Competence & Outcome Gap: Axonify emphasizes frontline engagement and daily training habits.[36] However, as detailed in Section 1.2, its capability model centers on knowledge retrieval via multiple-choice questions rather than verified physical execution of clinical procedures at the bedside.[10]
UK, Europe, & APAC Market Incumbents
1. Kallidus, Totara Health, & Thinqi (UK/Europe)
Stated Value Proposition & Core Strengths: These platforms serve NHS Trusts and European healthcare providers, offering flexibility for statutory and mandatory training management aligned with national standards.[1]
The Competence & Outcome Gap: These platforms function primarily as administrative tracking systems for the UK NHS Core Skills Training Framework (CSTF).[5] They document that an NHS employee clicked through statutory fire safety, infection control, or safeguarding e-learning modules.[5] They do not provide real-time verification of physical hand hygiene, aseptic dressing changes, or blood transfusion checks at the ward level.[10]
2. Skills for Health / e-Learning for Healthcare (eLfH — UK NHS)
Stated Value Proposition & Core Strengths: Standardized, open-access e-learning content libraries funded across NHS England to deliver uniform statutory and mandatory training topics.[5]
The Competence & Outcome Gap: eLfH provides standardized theoretical knowledge content delivered via desktop web browsers.[5] NHS staff routinely report completing these modules off-ward or during shift downtime without direct observation of clinical skills.[5] This model has operated alongside rising NHS clinical negligence payouts, which reached £3.1 billion in 2024/25, illustrating the disconnect between theoretical module completion and clinical risk reduction.[2]
3. Workday Learning & Moodle Deployments (APAC & Global)
Stated Value Proposition & Core Strengths: Open-source (Moodle) or enterprise HCM (Workday) architectures deployed across private hospital networks in Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Southeast Asia.[22]
The Competence & Outcome Gap: These deployments focus on localized regulatory reporting and central HR record-keeping.[22] They introduce significant navigation friction for shift-based, multi-lingual frontline care staff and fail to capture observational skill verification during patient care delivery.[10]
1.2 The Axonify Correlational-Claim Question & Legal/Accreditation Defensibility Deficit
To differentiate from traditional desktop LMS platforms, microlearning challengers like Axonify market correlational impact claims.[36] Axonify's product marketing highlights statistics such as a "127% increase in sales KPI performance" and a "76% reduction in labor hours spent on training" by linking daily platform quiz activity to business outcomes.[36]
The Legal Defensibility Gap
Axonify Correlational Claim Paradigm
Proves knowledge retrieval; fails the legal standard in malpractice litigation and regulatory surveys.
Regulated Medico-Legal Defensibility Standard
Proves actual physical skill execution against the clinical standard of care.
While statistical correlations between quiz participation and operational metrics may satisfy commercial leaders in retail or hospitality, correlational claims do not provide legal or regulatory defensibility in regulated clinical environments.[4]
The Medico-Legal Evidentiary Gap
In a medical malpractice lawsuit, a hospital defense team cannot refute a negligence claim by showing that a nurse maintained a 90-day login streak or achieved high quiz scores on a gamified mobile app.[4] Plaintiff attorneys and expert witnesses evaluate adherence to the clinical standard of care at the moment of intervention.[2]
Key Finding
If a central line dressing was changed incorrectly — resulting in a fatal bloodstream infection (CLABSI, costing $36,441 per incident) — a multiple-choice quiz record proves only theoretical recall. It does not prove that the clinician was physically evaluated and verified as competent in aseptic technique.[5, 10]
The Regulatory Audit Standard
During an unannounced CMS survey or CQC inspection following a sentinel event, surveyors inspect point-of-care practices.[4] CMS Immediate Jeopardy (IJ) surveyors require auditable, attributed, and timestamped proof that the specific clinician involved in an incident was evaluated and verified competent on the protocol in question.[4] Correlational engagement metrics fail this evidentiary threshold, leaving health systems exposed to regulatory penalties, civil monetary fines, and loss of accreditation deemed status.[1]
1.3 Pricing Models, Procurement Lock-In, and Financial Friction
The procurement structures of incumbent LMS vendors create financial misalignments that reinforce completion-centric paradigms while penalizing high-turnover healthcare organizations.[37]
| Incumbent Pricing Model | Typical Commercial Terms | Financial & Operational Friction Points | Impact on Healthcare Buyer Behavior |
|---|---|---|---|
| Per-Active-User / Per-Seat Subscription | $15.00 – $32.00 per employee per month (PEPM)[37] | Health systems pay for fixed software seats annually. When a hospital experiences 20%+ turnover, seats sit unused or require constant manual re-licensing.[37] | Organizations restrict platform access for part-time, agency, and contingency staff to manage seat license budgets.[37] |
| Per-Bed / Per-Facility Annual Contract | $10,000 – $60,000+ per facility/year based on licensed bed count[37] | Locks health systems into fixed annual software fees regardless of frontline usage or clinical engagement rates.[37] | Treats software as a fixed regulatory tax, encouraging leaders to focus on compliance sign-offs rather than active usage.[5] |
| Per-FTE / Bundled Accredited Content Licensing | Tiered pricing based on total FTE count, bundled with CE/CME/CNE rights[42] | High switching costs driven by multi-year content licensing agreements. Clinical education departments rely on pre-packaged CE content to meet licensing rules.[40, 42] | Locks organizations into desktop LMS architectures because changing systems requires replacing accredited content bundles.[40] |
These financial structures lock healthcare leadership into multi-year vendor relationships while penalizing organizations with high turnover.[37] Health systems end up paying millions annually for desktop software seats that frontline clinicians rarely access during active shifts.[6]
Section 2: The Challenger Paradigm — When Speed Becomes a Clinical Liability
2.1 Speed & Simplicity Tools: Merit vs. Clinical Risk Profile
Recognizing the friction of legacy desktop LMS platforms, healthcare teams increasingly adopt micro-content tools such as 7taps and lightweight video sharing platforms.[10] These micro-content tools offer clear operational benefits:
- Near-Zero Authoring Friction: Content creators can build and publish card-based micro-learning modules in minutes using simple web interfaces.[10]
- Rapid Dissemination: Micro-learning content is distributed to mobile devices via web links, SMS, or QR codes posted in break rooms, bypassing enterprise LMS login portals.[21]
- High Initial Engagement: Short, visual content formats achieve higher immediate view rates among busy shift workers compared to hour-long desktop modules.[10]
The Clinical Governance Failure Mode
Despite these operational advantages, deploying ungated micro-content tools in regulated healthcare environments introduces significant safety risks.[10] By making it easy for any unit manager, charge nurse, or educator to author and publish clinical guidance, these platforms digitize and scale the exact "shadowing and word-of-mouth" problem identified in Part I.[17]
The Challenger Failure Mode
When clinical instructions are published without formal governance, un-vetted shortcuts and local unit workarounds spread quickly across an organization.[10] A micro-learning module created by a single unit lead may contain outdated dosing guidance, unapproved line maintenance techniques, or steps that conflict with health system policy.[10] Digitizing unstandardized practices increases procedural variance — the root cause of 65% of clinical safety events.[17]
2.2 Version Control, Protocol Drift, and Retraction Failures
Clinical guidelines from authority bodies — such as the CDC, WHO, Joint Commission, and NICE — update frequently in response to emerging evidence and safety alerts.[32] Managing protocol updates across frontline clinical units requires robust version control and retraction capabilities.[10] Speed-focused challenger tools frequently lack enterprise clinical governance infrastructure:
- No Automated Version Control: When a clinical protocol changes (such as updated isolation procedures or line maintenance steps), fast-authoring tools often leave outdated micro-learning links active on local devices or printed QR code posters.[10]
- Lack of Instant Global Retraction: Lightweight micro-content tools rarely provide instant recall mechanisms to remove retired clinical instructions from mobile screens across all facility units simultaneously.[10]
- Absence of Audit-Grade Version Attribution: If an adverse event occurs, lightweight tools cannot generate an immutable audit log proving which specific version of a clinical protocol a clinician reviewed before delivering care.[4]
Publishing clinical guidance without version control and audit attribution creates significant operational liability, exposing health systems to regulatory citations and legal challenges.[4]
Section 3: The AI Moat — Differentiating Intelligence from Liability
3.1 Taxonomy of AI Architectures in Healthcare L&D
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming enterprise learning, but its deployment in healthcare L&D presents distinct operational risks.[22] The commercial market contains three primary AI software architectures, each with different risk profiles:
Generic LLM Wrappers
HIGH RISKHigh risk of hallucination and data leakage.
Document-Scraping Generators (Standard RAG)
MEDIUM RISKScales legacy errors if source PDFs are outdated.
Purpose-Built Multi-Agent Clinical Systems
LOW RISKDeterministic grounding, zero-hallucination, audit-ready.
1. Generic Third-Party LLM Wrappers
Operational Mechanism: Platforms that send user prompts directly to public third-party Large Language Model APIs without clinical guardrails or domain-specific grounding.[22] Clinical Risk Profile: High risk of hallucinated medical guidance, incorrect drug dosages, and data exposure if Protected Health Information (PHI) is included in prompts.[22]
2. Document-Scraping Content Generators (Standard RAG)
Operational Mechanism: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) tools that ingest enterprise PDF policy binders and automatically generate quizzes or summaries.[22] Clinical Risk Profile: While grounded in internal files, these tools inherit errors from legacy, un-revised PDF policy documents.[8] If a health system's central policy repository contains conflicting guidelines, the RAG parser may generate contradictory training modules.[22]
3. Purpose-Built Multi-Agent Instructional-Design Systems
Operational Mechanism: Multi-agent architectures engineered specifically for clinical education.[22] These systems parse official guidelines (CDC, WHO, NICE, internal policy) using deterministic source-grounding, apply clinical instructional design rules, and enforce mandatory Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) review gates before content deployment.[22] Clinical Risk Profile: Low risk; ensures zero-hallucination outputs, precise source attribution, and full clinical governance compliance.[22]
3.2 Clinical Accuracy, Source Grounding, and Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) Gates
In healthcare education, AI applications must maintain strict clinical accuracy.[22] Achieving this standard requires three essential architectural controls, arranged as a gated pipeline:
Clinical AI Verification Pipeline
- Deterministic Source Grounding: Every AI-generated learning card, scenario, or assessment question must map directly to an approved, version-controlled source document, with paragraph-level attribution allowing educators to trace every sentence back to primary clinical evidence.[22]
- Medical Terminology & Safety Guardrails: AI prompts must be constrained by specialized medical taxonomies (SNOMED-CT, RxNorm, ICD-10) to prevent ambiguous language in clinical procedures or drug administration steps.[22]
- Mandatory Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) Approval Gates: AI should draft clinical micro-learning modules, but it must never publish content autonomously. The platform must enforce a digital workflow requiring sign-off from an authorized Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS), Medical Director, or Quality Lead before content reaches frontline staff.[22]
3.3 Medico-Legal Liability, Data Governance, and CDS Guardrails
Deploying AI tools in clinical environments requires strict adherence to international data privacy laws and medical device regulations.[4]
Global Data Governance Compliance
AI clinical education software must comply with global privacy standards, including HIPAA (United States), GDPR (European Union), UK Data Protection Act (DPA 2018), and PDPA (Asia-Pacific).[4] Platforms must enforce zero-data-retention architectures for third-party LLM calls, ensuring that no patient health information (PHI) or personally identifiable information (PII) is processed or retained by external AI providers.[22]
The Clinical Decision Support (CDS) Regulatory Boundary
A critical risk for AI learning systems is inadvertently crossing the regulatory line between workforce enablement and unregulated Clinical Decision Support (CDS) software.[22] Under FDA guidance (21st Century Cures Act, 21 CFR 860) and equivalent frameworks enforced by the UK MHRA and EU MDR, software that provides real-time, patient-specific diagnostic or treatment recommendations is classified as a Medical Device / CDS.[22] Un-cleared CDS software exposes health systems to severe regulatory enforcement actions.[4]
Unregulated Medical Device / CDS
Software analyzes patient-specific data to recommend immediate treatments.
Compliant Workforce Enablement
Software trains staff on standardized clinical protocols and verifies clinician skill execution without processing live patient data.
To remain safely within the workforce enablement framework, AI educational systems must focus on protocol mastery, clinical skill reinforcement, and observational competence verification without evaluating live, patient-specific clinical data.[22]
Section 4: The Missing Middle
4.1 Defining What Neither Camp Delivers
The evaluation of current healthcare learning platforms reveals a structural void in the vendor landscape: The Missing Middle.
Incumbent Paradigm
HealthStream, Relias, Cornerstone
- Proves compliance completion
- Desktop-native friction
- Zero skill verification
Challenger Paradigm
7taps, generic video tools
- Proves rapid distribution
- Ungated governance risk
- Zero audit defensibility
The Missing Middle
Mobile-native shift access
Point-of-care verified competence
Surveyor-ready immutable audit trail
- Incumbents Prove Completion: They deliver accredited content repositories and administrative tracking dashboards, but rely on desktop login workflows that fail to verify bedside clinical execution.[5]
- Challengers Prove Distribution: They deliver fast micro-content authoring and mobile access, but lack clinical governance, version control, and auditable skill sign-offs.[10]
- Neither Camp Proves Competence: Neither incumbent nor challenger platforms provide a mobile-native system that verifies physical skill execution at the point of care while maintaining an immutable audit trail acceptable to Joint Commission, CQC, or JCI surveyors.[4]
Closing this operational gap requires a mobile-native enablement architecture that combines rapid micro-learning delivery with observational skill verification and auditable record-keeping.[10]
4.2 Comparative Capability Matrix
The matrix below evaluates four software categories across seven essential operational dimensions required for clinical workforce enablement.[4]
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| Operational Capability Dimension | Incumbent Healthcare LMS HealthStream, Relias | Enterprise HCM / General LMS Workday, Cornerstone | Micro-Content Challengers 7taps, video tools | The Missing Middle Mobile competence platform / Gnowbe |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Auditable Competency Records | MODERATE Tracks e-learning module completion and quiz scores; lacks bedside verification[5, 10] | MODERATE Tracks course transcripts; lacks clinical skill evaluation frameworks[5] | POOR Minimal audit logging; cannot produce surveyor-ready clinical evidence[10] | EXCELLENT Generates surveyor-ready, attributed, timestamped records of verified skills[10] |
| Practical Skill Verification (Point of Care) | NO Evaluates multiple-choice quiz answers via desktop browser[5, 10] | NO Evaluates theoretical course completion via corporate portal[5] | NO Tracks content views; lacks observational sign-off workflows[10] | YES Enforces digital checklist sign-offs, photo/video submission, and preceptor attribution[10] |
| Protocol Version Control & Governance | YES Centralized administrator publishing with version tracking[37, 38] | YES Enterprise taxonomy controls and administrative revision logs[43] | POOR Ungated publishing; high risk of scaling un-vetted workarounds[10] | YES Centralized clinical governance gates with instant global retraction capabilities[10] |
| Offline / Mobile Point-of-Care Access | POOR Requires desktop portal access; high login friction for shift staff[6, 20] | POOR Optimized for desktop workstations and corporate email users[6, 20] | YES Mobile-first delivery via web links, SMS, and QR codes[22] | YES Mobile-native app delivery with offline sync for low-connectivity care settings[10, 22] |
| Multi-Lingual Delivery & Localization | LIMITED Requires purchasing pre-translated static content modules[22, 37] | MODERATE Translates standard corporate text across static enterprise taxonomies[22] | LIMITED Manual authoring required for each language translation[22] | YES Automated multi-lingual content translation with localized clinical review[22] |
| CE / CME / CNE / CPD Credit Management | EXCELLENT Deep automated credit tracking and accreditation body reporting[38, 42] | MODERATE Tracks custom professional development hours; limited clinical CE integration[43] | NO No clinical continuing education credit management infrastructure[10] | YES Integrated CE/CPD credit tracking, tagging, and transcript export[10] |
| AI Content Governance & HITL Guardrails | POOR Legacy architectures rely primarily on static content libraries[22] | MODERATE Generic corporate AI content generation without clinical guardrails[22] | POOR Ungated AI generation without clinical source-grounding[22] | EXCELLENT Deterministic source-grounding, zero-hallucination prompts, and mandatory HITL gates[22] |
Conclusion & Strategic Transition: The "So What?" Connection to Part III
Part II of this series has demonstrated that current healthcare learning software market solutions leave health systems vulnerable.[10] Incumbent LMS platforms generate a Compliance Mirage by measuring desktop completion logs that prove zero point-of-care clinical competence.[5] Meanwhile, speed-focused micro-content tools introduce Clinical Governance Risks by scaling un-vetted floor workarounds without version control or audit attribution.[10]
This analysis establishes that resolving healthcare's frontline operational crisis requires bridging the Missing Middle.[10] Health systems need a learning delivery model that combines mobile accessibility for shift-based staff with observational skill verification and auditable record-keeping.[10]
Part III: Proving Competence at the Bedside details the operational framework designed to close this gap.[10] It introduces the Microlearning Instructional Design (MID) methodology ("Know. Think. Apply. Share."), demonstrates how observational skill verification generates surveyor-ready audit records, and presents empirical evidence linking bedside competence verification to direct reductions in turnover, adverse events, and agency labor spend.[10]
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