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Improve Patient Throughput and Experience

Creating a better healthcare system

Efficiency is critical to ensuring safer care, controlling costs, and creating an outstanding patient experience.

To become more efficient, accurate demand forecasting, acuity-aligned staffing, and dynamic patient flow displays are essential to ensure a proactive, not reactive, approach for delivering great patient care and saving money.

Our capacity management solutions help you accurately predict patient demand so you can align resources, optimally schedule staff based on patient acuity needs, and accelerate the patient’s journey through your hospital with safe, more cost-efficient care.

Giving back time to care

The most important job in any health system is patient care. But for too long, staff have been pulled away from the bedside to chase down clean beds for new patients or fulfill equipment needs.

Our capacity management solutions help providers more accurately predict patient demand, align staffing and scheduling based on patient acuity, adjust wards and other resources based on fluctuations in demand, and visualise the patient journey through the hospital for accelerated patient throughput.

The result? We help you give your team back time to care.

Manage Patient Demand, Staff, and Flow

Address rising and variable staffing costs

Cost variability is a big challenge, particularly when facing an inability to accurately predict patient demand resulting in a heavy dependence on agency staff, suboptimal overtime usage and other cost variability.

Our capacity management solutions help providers more precisely predict patient demand and align that demand with the right staff skills at the right time.

The result is reduced reliance on agency staff, optimised overtime usage, and decreased staffing cost variability.

Make discharge targeting reliable

Without the ability to monitor actual versus projected patient activity and quickly adapt to variances, teams cannot set accurate admission, discharge, and other targets.

This limits the ability to track performance against these key performance indicators (KPIs) for longer-term operational planning and executive reporting.

Our solutions help you prioritise activities based on predicted discharge time and broadcasts the information to the full team so key KPIs are reliably met.

Manage to variations instead of HPPD

Efficiencies need to be gained by managing to variations, not to average hours per patient day (HPPD), validating credentials more easily, and ensuring the right patient-to-staff ratios and percentages of licensed staff for each ward.

Our capacity management solutions help providers manage to variations through team-wide patient flow transparency, accurate prediction of patient demand, and acuity-based staff scheduling.

Executives can review operational data for efficient resource deployment.

Improve sluggish throughput

ALOS goals need improving through accurate patient tracking and synchronised care coordination.

Patient flow blockages also need to be resolved more quickly by increasing real-time visibility into clinical decisions and events, such as overdue medications, pending discharges, etc.

Our solutions visualise the patient journey throughout the hospital. Executives, physicians, nursing staff, environmental services, and transport all see the actions that need to be taken immediately to reduce ALOS.

Explore Our Capacity Management Solutions

Capacity Planner™

A predictive analytics capacity planning tool for hospitals that provides accurate forecasting of patient demand to help facilities maximise capacity, improve staffing resource alignment, and deliver exceptionally safe care.

Align Resources to Match Needs

Accurately forecast patient demand with predictive analytics to optimise resources, drive better decision-making, and improve staff satisfaction. Increase your ability to respond to change.
Focus on patient safety and improve care quality. By ensuring specialty demand is understood, Capacity Planner™ helps you mitigate clinical risk and match staff resources and beds to patient needs.
Improve productivity and maximise resources through precise staff allocation. Provide near-time access to information for educated decision making.
Leverage your data to improve operational and financial performance. Using your existing HIS, Capacity Planner™ creates a visual dashboard to show the impact of changes to your staffing, resources or scheduling.
Anticipate capacity blockages using modeling capabilities. Adjust your current processes to help minimise potential choking points.
Optimise patient flow from emergency to discharge. Use Capacity Planner™ to improve your average length of stay and discharge management.

Find out more about Capacity Planner™ on our main website

Enterprise Visibility™

A patient tracking system for hospitals that need real-time visibility into patient status from admission to discharge for optimised patient throughput.

Improved Hospital Patient Flow Management

Help speed patient flow and improve patient safety by providing a clear view of each patient’s status. Informed staff can deliver the best care in the most efficient manner possible, helping to ensure on-time discharges.
Synchronise physical and staff resources with enterprise-wide visibility to provide a more efficient, effective, and safe patient journey.
Work to reduce hospital length of stay by synchronising care coordination, improving flow, and driving discharge compliance.
Help deliver safe, high-quality care with tighter budgets and fewer resources. Meet new health system challenges related to value-based care, such as days in hospitals, bed capacity and appropriately certified staff.
Drive better outcomes while increasing patient volume by quickly identifying patients with critical results or orders pending. Track patient location, status and room availability at a glance.
Remove roadblocks and minimise interruptions by displaying patient and room status. Staff members can clearly track where patients are and what they need.

Find out more about Enterprise Visibility™ on our main website

Capacity & Resource Advisor™

A cloud-based forecasting solution for hospitals and health systems that want to accurately and precisely predict daily and unexpected demand to align staffing and other resources for optimal use.

Precisely Align Resources with Predicted Demand

Improve the accuracy of demand forecasting using advanced data models.
Help ensure care quality and reduce waste through more precise resource alignment.
Handle day-to-day hospital staff capacity planning challenges with actionable insights embedded into existing workflows.
Plan for unexpected volume surges with predictive analytics that model capacity challenges.

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ANSOS™ Time and Attendance

A labour management solution for healthcare providers that want to streamline the time entry, time approval, and accrual management processes, improve payroll efficiency, and control labour expenses.

Time and Attendance Solutions to Improve Payroll Efficiency

Improve accuracy via automatic time collection, validation, and processing. Minimise the time your staff spends keeping track of their hours.
Help meet requirements of labour statutes such as the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), and resident 80-hour work week.
Use real-time data to maintain labour rule continuity between time and labour, staff scheduling, open shift management, and payroll.
Support proactive management decisions with cost-focused current and future data. Integration with staffing reveals schedule variances and unscheduled assignments for quick manager intervention.
Apply user-defined pay rules to automate complex time and payroll calculations. On-demand reporting and trending analysis of actual staffing and payroll data helps you manage costs.
Empower staff with self-service options for submitting and requesting time. Prevent lost hours with automatic attendance point tracking and absence monitoring.

Find out more about ANSOS™ Time and Attendance on our main website

ANSOS™ Staff Scheduling

An enterprise productivity management solution for healthcare providers that want to anticipate workload requirements, meet staffing variations in real time, and balance clinical needs with staff’s professional goals.

Bring Medical Staffing Back to the Bedside

Increase employee satisfaction and productivity with flexible self-scheduling options, equitable workload distribution, and smart phone access to schedules and assignments.
Apply work rules fairly and consistently with automatic schedule generation and roster generation. Conflict-check requirements and automatically fill coverage holes with credentialed staff.
Streamline staff and management communication with increased visibility into current work conditions. Redeploy staff in real time, swapping assignments or recalibrating ward coverage with drag-and-drop tools.
Manage labour costs by optimising staff deployment through workload monitoring and vacancy fulfillment. Empower managers to maintain overtime, agency, and labour utilisation on a shift-by-shift basis.
Reduce time spent on staff management functions by up to 75%. Increase productivity with comprehensive qualification and education tracking, task and team assignments, and cost-effective staff utilisation.
Manage credentialing for magnet recognition and provide data validation for Joint Commission, NDNQI, and state agencies with a centralised, integrated database of employee demographic data.

Find out more about ANSOS™ Staff Scheduling on our main website

“When we have the right number of nurses taking care of the right number of patients in the right location, good things happen.”

MaryPat Sullivan CNO/Chief Experience Officer, Overlook Medical Center, Summit, N.J.

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Get in touch with our team today to find out how you can change the view with our hospital capacity management solutions.

Hospital Capacity Management Solutions