Staff Scheduling Solution from Kronos Enables Quality Care Delivery While Controlling Labor Costs
CHELMSFORD, Mass., Feb. 6, 2012 — Recognizing that labor costs represent the largest controllable expense for healthcare organizations, Kronos Incorporated continues to make significant investments in its employee scheduling solution to better align labor to demand. Including a rules-based scheduling engine; acuity-driven, whole-house staffing views; and the industry’s first mobile workforce management applications, Kronos provides the market’s most advanced, clinically focused scheduling solution to support quality care delivery while helping control labor costs.
News Facts
- With a rules-based scheduling engine, Kronos helps organizations create intelligent schedules in minutes. Based on historic workload levels – including seasonality and holidays, employee preferences, skills needed, and staff experience – employee schedules generated by Kronos are accurately aligned to patient demand.
- Leveraging its recent acquisition of OptiLink and introduction of functionality designed for central staffing offices, Kronos now provides healthcare organizations with acuity-driven, real-time whole-house views of coverage across all departments. This insight delivers the right information to managers to increase productivity of their employees and increase patient safety through reduced dependencies on overtime and agency staff.
- The mobile scheduling application from Kronos allows managers to instantly engage with employees to fill open shifts quickly using a variety of mobile devices. This helps managers secure qualified and available staff to fill open shifts in minutes and more easily respond to changes, further reducing dependencies on agency and overtime use. This also helps improve employee satisfaction, as staff can quickly and easily choose additional shifts that they are qualified for and available to fill.
Supporting Quotes
- Brian Graves, global practice leader, healthcare practice group, Kronos
"In the face of reforms and rising labor costs, healthcare organizations are pressured to balance delivery of quality care with the costs to deliver it. The Kronos scheduling solution offers two important means to help organizations achieve this balance: real-time visibility into critical labor data, and the ability to quickly respond to labor-related issues. Through continued innovation, we remain committed to meeting the needs of the most technologically savvy healthcare organizations."
About Kronos Incorporated
Kronos is the global leader in workforce management solutions that enable organizations to control labor costs, minimize compliance risk, and improve workforce productivity. Tens of thousands of organizations in 60 countries — including more than half of the Fortune 1000® — use Kronos time and attendance, scheduling, absence management, HR and payroll, hiring, and labor analytics applications. To learn how Kronos uniquely delivers complete automation and high-quality information in an easy-to-use solution, visit www.kronos.com.
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Contact
Indrani Ray-Ghosal
Kronos Incorporated
+1 978.947.3042
indrani.rayghosal@kronos.com