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iconAllina Hospitals and Clinics Improves Productivity and Accountability with Kronos for Healthcare
Allina uses Workforce Scheduler and Kronos Workforce Analytics for Healthcare to increase visibility of and reporting on workforce data.
iconNursing Management: Guide to Patient Safety featuring BayCare Health System
Implementing a Kronos scheduling solution has allowed BayCare’s nurses to focus more on delivering excellent patient care.
iconAmerican HealthCare -- Kronos and PrimeCare Technologies team to build AmericanHealthCare an effective workforce management solution
American Healthcare was able to reduce unnecessary overtime through fast access to data; limit the expense and use of agency staff that may not be familiar with residents’ needs; and also improve efficient use of staff management time.
iconOptiLink Helps Stamford Hospital Optimize Staffing to Meet Budget and Productivity Targets
Using Kronos OptiLink, nurse leadership at Stamford Hospital has real-time patient census and acuity data for accurate, cost-effective staffing decisions every shift, even as patient volume changes. Labor cost savings over $500,000 in first quarter of use.
iconGenesis HealthCare Utilizes Kronos OptiLink for Staffing Productivity Gains and $2.2 Million Labor Savings
Genesis HealthCare utilizes Kronos OptiLink for staffing productivity gains and $2.2 million labor savings.
iconTallahassee Memorial Healthcare Customer Profile
Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare leverages Kronos OptiLink for more efficient, cost-effective scheduling.
iconKronos OptiLink Customer Story - Seton Family of Hospitals
Measure nursing workload in a way that takes into account not just census, but patient acuity and the nursing resources required to meet patients needs. See how Seton Family of Hospitals did it.
iconUsing Patient Acuity to Enhance Revenue and Staffing Effectiveness
With valid and reliable nursing intensity data, this organization enhanced revenue by billing private payers for increased nursing resources, and provided frontline leaders a more accurate account of nursing workload to drive safer and more effective staffing.
iconNursing Management IT Solutions Supplement - Banner Thunderbird Medical Center: Clinical operations consulting
Banner Health uses analytics to provide frontline managers with real-time visibility into staffing and workforce performance issues.
iconLindenGrove Enjoys Productivity Gains, Cost Control, and Timely Solution Maintenance with Kronos Solution
Find out how LindenGrove, a long-term care provider with 1,000 employees, brought payroll in house. They report productivity gains and labor cost control. LindenGrove relies on Kronos Managed Services to keeep their workforce management solution up to date and running smoothly.

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iconBig Data - Think Big. Think Easy. Think Kronos
Think Big Data isn’t for you? Think again. Watch this two-minute video to understand how big data can impact the efficiency and effectiveness of your workforce and the quality of care you delivery. Remember...it’s not big data that’s the big deal — it’s what you do with it.
iconVideo: Workforce Tablet Analytics for Healthcare Demo
See Workforce Tablet Analytics for Healthcare in action with this demo video.
iconVideo: Kronos for Healthcare
Need a healthcare workforce management solution that supports quality patient care? We can help you control your biggest expense. Minimize compliance risk. And do more with what you’ve already got. Interested?
iconBenefits of Healthcare Analytics
With poor workforce visibility, small decisions can snowball into big problems. Workforce Analytics for Healthcare sheds light on the complex, otherwise hidden workings of your healthcare organization. Turn to Kronos to gain insight into workforce issues to make more informed, fact-based decisions.
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iconBanner Thunderbird Medical Center Case Study: Analytics Provide Frontline Managers with Real-time Visibility
Analytics are providing our frontline managers with real-time visibility into workforce performance issues. They’re now able to make quick, timely adjustments to labor levels and fluctuating patient volumes to further control their costs and improve productivity.
iconKronos is Clear Choice for Fast Payback and Innovation in Healthcare Workforce Management
Banner Health, BJC HealthCare, Catholic Health Partners, and The Cleveland Clinic are among more than 7,000 healthcare facilities around the world that have chosen workforce management solutions from Kronos Incorporated to control labor costs, minimize compliance risk, and improve productivity.
iconPAYTECH Magazine Company Spotlight – Kronos is Winning Workforce Innovation
Kronos® is an industry leader in workforce management. Kronos software is used in more than 100 countries by tens of thousands of organizations — including more than half of the Fortune 1000 — to fundamentally change the way they manage their workforces.
iconKronos Survey Shows Many Part-Time Employees Confused About Affordable Care Act; Not Getting Much Help From Employers
A new survey commissioned by The Workforce Institute™ at Kronos Incorporated and conducted online by Harris Interactive in April among 2,066 U.S. adults reveals that many part-time employees – those who will likely be most impacted by the Affordable Care Act – are confused about what the impact will be and are not getting much help from their employers.
iconWorkforce Management Automation - this technology has spurred multimillion dollar improvements for North Shore-LIJ Health System
North Shore-LIJ Health System, one of the nation’s largest nonprofit secular health systems, implements Kronos’ comprehensive workforce management solution and improves the way it manages employees and day-to-day labor practices while achieving dramatic reductions in overall costs.
iconKronos Helps Employers Navigate the Affordable Care Act; Launches ACA eBook
Kronos Incorporated today announced the release of an eBook designed to help organizations navigate the principal provisions of Title I of the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
iconKronos Helps Healthcare Organizations Manage in the Moment With Workforce Tablet Analytics
Kronos Incorporated today announced the availability of its healthcare-specific Workforce Tablet™ Analytics application, which provides healthcare organizations real-time visibility into actionable productivity and labor cost management data from anywhere, at any time.
iconKronos Survey Reveals Nurse Fatigue is Pervasive in the Healthcare Industry and Directly Linked to On-the-Job Errors
A new survey titled “Nurse Staffing Strategy”, commissioned by Kronos Incorporated and conducted by HealthLeaders Media, revealed that nurse fatigue is pervasive in the healthcare industry and may negatively impact quality care delivery, patient and employee satisfaction, and operational costs.
iconMobile Computing Now An Integral Part of Workforce Management
In the past two years, we’ve seen tablets and consumer smart phones steadily invade what was previously AIDC territory alone. During this time, the invasion has also spilled over into other adjacent markets, such as workforce management systems. In a recent interview with Bill Bartow, Kronos VP of product development, we learned just how prevalent the trend really is.
iconHealthcare Organizations Use Kronos OptiLink to Enhance Patient Care Delivery and Meet Regulatory Challenges
Since its acquisition of OptiLink last year, Kronos Incorporated has experienced heightened global demand for the acuity-based staffing solution as it became integrated with the market’s most advanced, clinically focused workforce management suite designed to help healthcare organizations deliver high-quality patient care.
iconKronos Reports Exceptional First-Quarter Results; Workforce Management Cloud Revenue Increases 106%
Kronos Incorporated today announced financial results, company advancements, and customer successes for the first quarter of Fiscal 2013. Kronos revenue for the quarter increased 13 percent to $224.2 million.
iconWorking the Cloud Helps Smaller Companies Dream Big
Download this PAYTECH magazine article and find out why Kronos Workforce Ready is such a powerful system for organizations that want to automate their workforce management processes easily and affordably.

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iconWorkforce Analytics for Healthcare Product Information Sheet
This two-page product slick outlines product features/benefits and highlights the product dashboard.
iconKronos OptiLink Datasheet
Kronos OptiLink helps providers effectively provision care to meet staffing-related legislative requirements, distribute workload equitably, and maintain a safe environment for patients and staff alike.
iconKronos for Healthcare: Delivering High-Quality Care in an Ever-Changing Healthcare Environment
The solution guide details how Kronos' integrated workforce management solution helps providers control labor costs, minimize compliance risk, and improve workforce productivity while supporting quality patient care with a quality workforce.
iconKronos OptiLink EMR-Professional Judgment Methodology
Kronos OptiLink® Patient Classification Methodology: OptiLink’s unique EMR and Professional Judgment Methodology is a data-driven and nursing-centric approach to patient classification.
iconHomeCare Link
Designed with home health and hospice in mind, HomeCare Link facilitates data sharing between Kronos applications and other systems, including point of care solutions.
iconWorkforce Talent Acquisition Express for Long-Term Care
Workforce Talent Acquisition Express offers you the performance and reliability of world-class enterprise hiring software at a much lower cost and faster start-up time.
iconKronos OptiLink Client Partnership Services
Client Partnership Services helps you dramatically increase your Kronos OptiLink’s value by maximizing the return on investment in monetary savings.
iconWorkforce Scheduler Data Sheet
How does Workforce Scheduler™ put the right person in the right place at the right time for the right cost?
iconKronos For Long-Term Care Solution Guide
Labor is expensive. Compliance is not optional. And quality resident care is essential. Discover the workforce management solution that helps you deliver cost-effective, high-quality care.
iconOptiLink Cohort Services Datasheet
Client Partnership Services helps you dramatically increase your Kronos OptiLink’s value by maximizing the return on investment in monetary savings.
iconWorkforce Timekeeper
Kronos® Workforce Timekeeper™ enables you to identify, manage, and control employee time and attendance data for bottom-line results.
iconKronos® iSeries® Central Suite v6.2
Kronos® iSeries® Central v6.2 applies consumer-based technologies to reshape the Kronos workforce management solution for IBM iSeries customers.
iconTechnology Services Datasheet
Kronos Technology Services provides analysis, migration, and performance-based services on an as-needed basis to help customers optimize their existing Kronos solution infrastructure.

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iconNursing’s Time to Lead. Enabling True Leadership in a Time of Crisis. Pillar 3 – Making Hard Decisions with Truthful Information
In the third pillar of our four-part series titled, Nursing Time to Lead, we’ll examine the myths surrounding staffing in ever-changing hospital conditions. Discover how a real-time, single source of truth into day-to-day operations help nurses execute more consistent, evidence-based decisions.
iconSweeping HC Changes Require IT Innovations
How will IT operations keep pace with the legislative, economic and demographic changes impacting HC? Forward-thinking IT leaders should be looking to the ease-of-use of a deep-functioning WFM solution as the best place to start to control costs, improve productivity, and achieve better patient outcomes with evidence-based decisions.
iconNursing’s Time to Lead. Enabling True Leadership in a Time of Crisis. Pillar 2 – Turning Hurdlers into Sprinters
Nursing's Time to Lead is a four-part series that will examine how to enable true leadership in a time of crisis. In the second pillar, Turning Hurdlers into Sprinters, we will examine one of the biggest hurdles for nurses.
iconKronos InTouch: Simplifying and Lowering the Costs of Workforce Management
Kronos commissioned IDC to conduct an independent ROI analysis of its InTouch time clock. This document is based on an analysis of 10 interviews conducted in 2012 with Kronos customers. IDC identified how Kronos InTouch is delivering financial benefits in support of workforce management.
iconNursing’s Time to Lead. Enabling True Leadership in a Time of Crisis. Pillar 1 – In Nursing We Trust
Who can we trust to help us conquer all the challenges that lie ahead? In the first pillar of our four-part series, In Nursing We Trust, we will explore the best ways to trust and enable nursing to lead us out of the current healthcare crisis.
iconWant to create a safer, more therapeutic environment for staff and patients alike?
Want to create a safer, more therapeutic environment for staff and patients alike? HealthLeaders Media survey.
iconAberdeen Analyst Insight: Learning for Long Term Success: Investing in Workforce Management Training and Education
This analyst brief by Aberdeen reveals research done that shows how organizations that invest in ongoing training are able to gain a competitive advantage by improving user adoption and driving business outcomes.
iconNext Generation WFM: The ROI for Accurate Scheduling
Find out how organizations are solving the jigsaw puzzle of scheduling – matching up availability, skills, and business demand - to create accurate and efficient schedules that drive better business results.
iconThe Value of Evidence-Based Human Resources in Healthcare Organizations
Using Evidence-Based Human Resources, HR professionals can now focus on both business strategy and standards of evidence which allows them to demonstrate how “intangible” human capital can be observed and measured, and add tangible business results.
iconLeveraging Workforce Management to Meet the Challenges and Demands of Acute Care Staffing, by IDC Health Insights
It is clear that hospitals need to move beyond minimum staffing ratios and make the best use of staff possible to meet the quality and productivity goals under healthcare reform. One trend in staffing today is the use of acuity classification which allows a more precise distribution of resources as staffing ratios can be customized to the acuity of patients, and denser coverage delivered to patients with the greatest need. IDC analyst Judy Hanover recommends that hospitals incorporate acuity data into staffing and scheduling processes and systems. Other technology trends for staffing and scheduling discussed are mobile communications, whole-house views and cetralized staffing. Download this Q&A to get insights on these solutions.

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iconEnsuring Positive Resident Outcomes while Avoiding Hospital Readmissions
Today, 1 in 4 persons admitted to skilled nursing care centers from hospitals are readmitted to the hospital within 30 days. Not only does it cost government programs like Medicare billions of dollars, it can negatively impact resident satisfaction, your reputation and ultimately your bottom line. View this on-demand webinar to hear two nurse experts discuss what role workforce management has on reducing hospital readmissions, best practices in aligning properly skilled caregivers to residents’ care needs, and how facilities can assist in bridging the gaps within the continuum of care.
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