Healthcare IT News - November 2007 - (Page 42) 42 Healthcare IT News n November 2007 MANAgeMeNT sOLuTiONs www.HealthcareITNews.com Buyers guide By PaTTy ENrado, Contributing Editor resource MaNageMeNt AtStaff executives say their ClairVia software’s Patient Pattern Management continually tracks and predicts the patient-specific workload demands and requirements needed to attain optimal clinical and financial results for each patient. It monitors and compares each patient’s actual status against his or her outcomes-based pattern. Market moves in new directions A lThOugh reSOurCe SChedulINg and management is still fairly paper based, the buzz phrase “workforce management suite of products” is moving this market in a new direction, according to Jared Peterson, vice president of research operations for KLAS Enterprises. While some vendors, such as API Software and Kronos, have focused on the human resources and financial perspective, others have focused on the patient needs and the resources required for the patient, such as AtStaff. At the same time, McKesson has acquired the resource scheduling and management piece in Per Se and interfaced the human resource, financial and materials management pieces to provide a total enterprise resource planning package. Hospital culture, workflow and other factors will determine which model works best for the organization, said Peterson. A lot of progress has been made in making Web-enabled tools more robust and userfriendly. Peterson expects the market to grow as vendors enhance capabilities to address this complex area. The ranked list is from KLAS’s Top 20 Mid-Year Report for 2007. apI software INc. atstaff McKessoN corp. The Activestaffer staffing and scheduling system KLAS Rank No. 1 Features: The ActiveStaffer system automates and streamlines complex scheduling processes so healthcare organizations can manage resources more effectively and reduce labor costs. The application empowers employees through a range of tools, including self-scheduling, shift-bidding and a self-service portal – all designed to promote a healthy work-life balance and strengthen employee retention efforts. It enables managers to eliminate manual paper-based scheduling processes, better control overtime and apply consistent staffing policies enterprise-wide. Online reporting capabilities provide executives with custom real-time snapshots of staffing levels so that they can better analyze resource utilization, respond to staffing deficits and minimize reliance on costly agency workers. ClairVia KLAS Rank No. 2 Features: The ClairVia outcomes-driven demand management solution improves quality of care, patient safety and patient throughput by ensuring that patients receive the exact, clinically appropriate level and amount of care from admission to discharge. ClairVia determines each patient’s real-time and predicted demand for staffing care by tracking each patient along a progress pattern, which outlines the optimal progression of care for the best clinical outcomes. ClairVia also integrates leading staff management capabilities – including personalized Web-based dashboards for all stakeholders, advanced productivity measurement, enterprise scheduling and staffing, and real-time decision support – for complete control over day-to-day staffing allocation and deployment. ANsOs One-staff KLAS Rank No. 3 Features: The cornerstone of McKesson’s WorkForce Management Solution Suite, ANSOS One-Staff provides enterprise productivity management for more than 1,200 facilities. Open shift management and Web scheduling allow for balancing clinical needs with staff’s personal goals – resulting in higher recruitment and retention rates. ANSOS One-Staff arrests the cycle of dependency on agency personnel by empowering employees with self-scheduling. A centralized display of real-time staffing conditions across the enterprise optimizes deployment, promoting cost-effective staffing to target. Dynamic acuity calculation allows management to anticipate workload conditions and meet variations in real-time. Robust reporting and credentialing provide invaluable data validation for a variety of venues. KroNos ing 2,400 hospitals, Kronos for Healthcare is a comprehensive offering of software and services designed to manage labor costs, increase productivity and improve employee satisfaction while supporting quality patient care with a quality workforce. res-Q HeaLtHcare systeMs OTher NOTABLe PrOduCTs res-Q Labor resource Management Features: RES-Q Labor Resource Management is a Web-enabled, Windows-based, client/ server application for employee resource management. RES-Q delivers measurable results that hospitals can count on: faster scheduling, reduced overtime, decreased use of costly outside agency staff, greater consistency in the application of equitable scheduling rules and improved employee satisfaction. The system includes features that support enterprise-wide employee scheduling, employee self-scheduling, online schedule requesting, personnel management, workload staffing, patient acuity determination and department labor budgeting. The system can schedule an unlimited number of employees across any number of user-defined scheduling periods and shifts, providing the flexibility to handle today’s complex scheduling demands. n More at HealthcareITNews.com e Connect: MaNage 1107 VISIT THE ALL NEW! esP KLAS Rank No. 4 Features: ESP, a component of the Kronos for Healthcare suite, is an advanced staff scheduling software designed specifically to support highly unionized healthcare environments. Currently more than 300,000 healthcare employees across the world are scheduled with the ESP, enabling them to align and optimize their work practices every day. With 30 years of workforce management knowledge, serving more than 4,000 healthcare facilities, includ- ● Chronic diseases cost the U.S. economy $1.3 trillion – Efforts to improve adoption of healthcare information technology could reduce clinical and administrative components of healthcare costs, according to the Milken Institute, which pegs the impact of chronic disease on the U.S. economy at $1 trillion – and growing. The impact could balloon to $6 trillion by the middle of the century, the Milken report released last month says. T he Milken Institute study, An Unhealthy America: The Economic Burden of Chronic Disease, indicates that seven chronic diseases – cancer, diabetes, hypertension, stroke, heart disease, pulmonary SANTA MONICA, CA conditions and mental illness – have a total impact on the economy of $1.3 trillion annually. Of that amount, the report said, about $1.1 trillion represents the cost of lost productivity. “By investing in good health, we can add billions of dollars in economic growth in the coming decades,” said Ross DeVol, director of health economics and regional economics at the Milken Institute and principal author of the report. The report also recommends additional development and adoption of information technology. n More at HealthcareITNews.com e Connect: MILKeN 1107 ● e ● Connect: Merge 1107 http://www.HealthcareITNews.com http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=8066 http://www.healthcareitnews.com http://www.HealthcareITNews.com http://www.mergehealthcare.com http://www.mergehealthcare.com http://www.HealthcareITNews.com http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=8067 http://www.healthcareitnews.com/eConnect.cms?id=8104
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