Scheduling Essentials for Clinical Operations Leaders

Optimized Scheduling Features

Establishing an efficient, optimized schedule for the whole enterprise isn't impossible. The key lies in knowing what capabilities and processes are essential to creating a more interconnected health system. With these critical features in place, operations leaders can instill equalized, transparent schedules that fight patient leakage, high staff turnover rates, and revenue loss.

Use the checklist below to evaluate your current scheduling solution, and learn what outcomes are possible that drive high operational efficiency and improve experiences for each and every department.

Broad Support
of Integrations

Outdated manual processes turn digital with multiple key platform integrations. Accurate payroll/time/attendance, EHR embed, demographics, appointment scheduling, data shipping, residency, and more

Better Resource
Allocation

Balance departmental requirements with provider preferences

Manage rooms (OR, ER) and equipment to match resources with patient demand

Robust Analytics
and Reporting

Access a large number of standard reports, as well as highly custom reports tailored to your specific needs

Analyze the full picture of data using the latest available real time data

Parse data like total hours or shifts worked, including weighting different shifts based on difficulty or desirability

Data can be evaluated for one or all departments to uncover more granular insights or engage in broader trend analysis

Optimized Scheduling Outcomes

Better Staffing

Improved staff satisfaction and retention:
- Intuitive app experience
- Ability to submit personal preferences
- Easy to request shift swaps and time off
- More transparency with schedule visibility for all users
Location-agnostic, cloud-based schedule access
Non-essential care team staff can access schedules with a custom link while working from any location

Smarter
Resource Utilization

One unified, enterprise-wide schedule accessible toall care team members and staff
Optimize staff utilization by creating the best possible schedule
Pair departmental requirementswith provider preferences
Match resources (such as OR and ER rooms) and equipment with patient demand

Reduced
Vendor Footprint

One vendor for deployment, support, training, and integrations management
Efficient transfer of information via a single source of truth for all schedules
Easily scale to additional departments and locations
Option to scale with a single vendor for other critical operational solutions such as clinical communication, operator console, answering service, and patient texting

Improved
Patient Experience

More accessible schedules and improved provider communication aid speed to care and quality of the patient experience
Accelerated speed to care yields better patient outcomes and less patient leakage
Streamlined communication workflows mean faster throughput

Scheduling impacts each and every department in a health system, but when it's done with a focus on the enterprise as a whole, common issues—provider turnover and dissatisfaction, patient leakage, and care delays—can be improved. With powerful integrations, smarter resource allocation, and a deeper understanding of the schedules that do and don't work, the enterprise experiences better staffing (and happier providers), smarter resource utilization, and improved patient experiences through the entire patient journey.

Implementing solutions that truly work towards operational goals doesn't have to be an arduous process. We're here to help, and we'd love to walk you through this checklist and get a better understanding of your unique enterprise goals. Connect with us today by scheduling a time to talk with an expert below!