New Book Offers a Blueprint to Unlocking the Future of Healthcare Workforce Management with AI

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 3, 2025--

Nurse scheduling and staffing remains one of the most complex challenges for hospitals and health systems. With more than 15 years of experience in driving operational excellence in healthcare systems, Dr. Dani Bowie, DNP, RN, NE-BC, specializes in leading innovative staffing and scheduling technology initiatives that boost nurse engagement and cut labor costs. Dr. Bowie’s new book, “ Reimagine Workforce Management with AI: a Roadmap for Healthcare Leaders,” chronicles her journey with artificial intelligence (AI) over the past decade full of starts, pauses, failures, restarts and successes.

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“Nothing is more frustrating than being asked to do a job without the right tools and support and repeatedly getting less than optimal results,” said Dani Bowie, DNP, RN, NE-BC, SVP of Workforce AI at Aya Healthcare. “I’m able to show how healthcare leaders can use AI tools so that workforce planning, scheduling and staffing can be done with more precision than ever before.”

This eye-opening page-turner shows healthcare leaders how to revolutionize workforce management. Dr. Bowie’s 80-page book is chock full of tools, evidence-based best practices, key terminology and AI history. Healthcare leaders are given step-by-step solutions for how to create an effective scheduling and staffing system that includes operational strategies, goals and key performance indicators.

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Industry peers and colleagues reviewed Dr. Bowie’s new book and have given rave reviews. “This is the book I wish I had when I took my first role as a healthcare executive. A must-read for anyone leading workforce strategy in healthcare,” said Rudy Jackson, DNP, MHA, RN, CENP, FNAP, SVP and System Chief Nurse Executive.

Hospitals and healthcare systems can attain a free copy of “Reimagine Workforce Management with AI: a Roadmap for Healthcare Leaders” here.

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About the author:

Dr. Dani Bowie brings over 15 years of experience in driving operational excellence in healthcare systems and specializes in leading innovative staffing and scheduling technology initiatives that boost nurse engagement and cut labor costs. She is currently the SVP of Workforce AI at Aya Healthcare.

Dr. Bowie received her Master of Science in nursing from Vanderbilt University School of Nursing and her doctorate in nursing from Yale University, where she built a predictive nurse scheduling model. She has conducted research and published extensively about the nursing workforce in many journals, including Nursing Economics, Nurse Leader and American Nurse.

Dr. Bowie has led and independently consulted for several health systems to design and build centralized staffing and scheduling offices, while simultaneously deploying staffing and scheduling technology platforms. She leverages her expertise in healthcare, technology, project and people management, along with her bold leadership strategies, to help organizations achieve clinical and financial KPIs.

About Aya Healthcare:

Aya Healthcare is the largest healthcare talent software and staffing company in the United States. Aya operates the world’s largest digital staffing platform delivering every component of healthcare-focused labor services, including travel nursing and allied health, per diem, permanent staff hiring, interim leadership, locum tenens and non-clinical professionals. Aya’s AI-enabled software solutions, which include vendor management, float pool technology, provider solutions and predictive analytics, combined with its digital talent marketplaces, provide hospital systems greater efficiencies, superior operating results and reduced labor costs. While technology drives efficiency and scale, Aya’s 6,000+ global employees power the company to deliver unparalleled accountability and exceptional experiences for clients and clinicians. Aya’s company culture is rooted in giving back and supports organizations around food security, education, healthcare, safe shelter and equity. To learn more about Aya Healthcare, visit www.ayahealthcare.com.

In Dr. Dani Bowie's new book, "Reimagine Workforce Management with AI: A Roadmap for Healthcare Leaders," healthcare leaders are given step-by-step solutions for how to create an effective scheduling and staffing system that includes operational strategies, goals and key performance indicators.

Things to watch this weekend in the Atlantic Coast Conference:

No. 1 Miami (8-0) at No. 4 Notre Dame (7-1), Saturday, 7:30 p.m. ET (NBC)

This one has been circled on the schedule all year, rooted in the Hurricanes beating the Fighting Irish last year in a game that ultimately swung a College Football Playoff bid to Miami instead of Notre Dame. And the Hurricanes rode that all the way to the CFP title game while the Irish opted out of playing in the postseason at all.

The Hurricanes have largely rolled through their schedule with the nation's top-scoring offense (47.6), though receiver and Heisman Trophy candidate Malachi Toney suffered an ankle injury this week and is scheduled for surgery that will sideline him for multiple weeks. In addition, Miami is coming off a game in which its defense struggled to get off the field in a comeback win at North Carolina on Saturday.

The Fighting Irish suffered their only loss at No. 7 BYU on Oct. 17. This is the first of four straight against ACC foes to close Notre Dame's schedule.

Virginia Tech (6-2, 3-2 ACC) at SMU (6-2, 4-2), Friday, 7 p.m. ET (ESPN)

The Mustangs are coming off a loss to Syracuse in a game that dropped them behind No. 14 Wake Forest in the chase to reach the ACC championship game. That put them in a logjam of two-loss teams in the standings, a group that includes the Hokies in James Franklin's first season in Blacksburg. That makes this something approaching an elimination game.

Clemson (5-3, 3-2) at Syracuse (4-4, 2-4), Saturday, noon ET (ESPN2)

The Tigers have no margin for error at this point as part of that group of two-loss teams, with losses to Miami and Virginia Tech. Now they're traveling to face the Orange, which started 0-4 in the league but edged North Carolina in overtime and then upset SMU last week.

— N.C. State RB Davion Gause. With starter Duke Scott still sidelined by injury, Gause ran 19 times for 104 yards and a touchdown in the weekend win against California in the first game under interim coach Todd Goebbel. That was Gause's best output for the Wolfpack since transferring from UNC and he is positioned for a role even when Scott returns.entering Saturday's visit by Duke.

— Louisville QB Lincoln Kienholz. The Cardinals can't afford a stumble in Saturday's trip to Georgia Tech. Kienholz has run for five touchdowns in Louisville's current three-game winning streak.

Duke running back Nate Sheppard is No. 5 nationally in rushing (121.5) and third in rushing touchdowns (14) after going for five scores in a blowout of Boston College. ... Florida State visits Boston College on Saturday in its first game under interim coach Rick Stockstill after the firing of Mike Norvell. ... The Eagles had scored 27 points in a win against Pittsburgh and 49 points in a win at Georgia Tech, only to lose 47-2 last weekend to the Blue Devils. ... North Carolina defensive line coach Bob Diaco returns to UConn on Saturday when the Tar Heels face the Huskies program he led as head coach from 2014-16. Diaco went 11-26 in those three seasons. ... Wake Forest (5-1 ACC) steps out of ACC play to host Merrimack having scored 38 or more points in four straight games, including last weekend's 51-7 win against Virginia. ... California, Pittsburgh, Stanford and Virginia are idle this week.

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Miami tight end Elija Lofton (9) jumps over North Carolina defensive back Gregory Smith III (1) during the second half of an NCAA college football game Saturday, Oct. 31, 2026, in Chapel Hill, N.C. (AP Photo/Chris Seward)