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The Importance of Cheerleaders

Chris Flanders — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 13:00:29 +0000

Football is back on the horizon again, and I’m looking forward to having my Saturday’s absorbed with the drama and pageantry that is college football. There’s much I’m anticipating, including another run at a national championship by my beloved Alabama Crimson Tide! And this year, I’m hoping to take my son to his first college [...]

How To Avoid an Oversight Trap: Correlating Vision and Design

Chris Flanders — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 14:00:10 +0000

When a health system or hospital purchases a workforce management system to implement, the executives who approved the purchase typically have a vision of what they want from the system. This is beyond the ROI, which would have been used to justify the purchase. The vision is how the WFM system will be utilized in [...]

DOL Releases Timesheet App for iPhones

Chris Flanders — Wed, 11 May 2011 12:30:00 +0000

This week, the U.S. Department of Labor announced that they have developed a free smartphone app for employees to keep track of the their hours, independently from their employer, and determine what they should be getting paid. You can read the press release at the link above, but there’s one key paragraph that should jump [...]

Understanding Reporting and Analytics in WFM

Chris Flanders — Tue, 10 May 2011 12:00:11 +0000

The term “analytics” gets thrown around a bit by WFM vendors as they have solutions that are advertised an a “analytics reporting system” or something similar. Wondering what that means, exactly, and how that is different from the reporting inherent in the vendor’s application? We’re going to take a look at reporting and analytics to [...]

Process Automation

Chris Flanders — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 12:00:00 +0000

When implementing a scheduling system, process automation is usually one of the factors that is used to show an ROI savings. And that is absolutely legitimate. But is all process automation good? Well…to put it bluntly: No. In this next entry in our Healthcare Scheduling Implementation Roadmap Series, I want to look at two different [...]

HIMSS11 Post-Conference Thoughts

Chris Flanders — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 21:06:17 +0000

This year’s conference in Orlando was interesting one. There were a few things that caught my eye during the course of the three very long days! 1. There were a record number of attendees. Close to 31,000 in attendance was the number that was announced. However, the tradeshow floor (where I spent most of my [...]

California Meal and Rest Penalties to Cost More

Bob Clements — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 14:00:00 +0000

We all know that employees in California need to be paid for meal and rest periods that are missed. A recent ruling by California’s Second Court of Appeals has clarified how much an employee is to be compensated for a missed meal or rest period, and it is probably more than you think! California state [...]

Seven Reasons Why WFM Vendor Selection Requirements Can’t Replace Implementation Requirements

Tayiba Garcia — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 15:00:00 +0000

I have been spending quite a bit of time recently working with Axsium clients who are transitioning from selecting a workforce management software solution to implementing it. Recently, one well-meaning client suggested that the implementation timeline could be significantly reduced by leapfrogging over Discovery and jumping right into Design. “After all,” the client said, “the [...]

Roadmap Series Midpoint, HIMSS Conference

Chris Flanders — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 13:00:00 +0000

We have been writing a series in this blog, laying out a roadmap for a successful healthcare scheduling implementation. This is a topic that is near & dear to us since scheduling is the hub of workforce management in healthcare. And workforce management at Axsium is, of course, our bread & butter, our wheelhouse, where [...]

Importance of Staffers

Sonya Wright — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 13:00:46 +0000

If a hospital is a machine, then the heart of this machine is arguably the centralized staffing office. The decisions made around choosing staff to utilize in the event of a shortage can seriously affect cost, productivity, and ultimately patient care. A centralized staffing office enables unit mangers to focus on improving the processes surrounding [...]