A healthcare staffing agency becomes critical the moment a hospital floor realizes it is one nurse short and patient safety is suddenly at risk. I have watched this happen during a winter surge when call-outs stacked up before sunrise and the charge nurse had to reshuffle assignments just to keep ratios safe. Those moments show…
Workforce management is the issue in the advanced work environment of the healthcare industry that can be addressed by more than spreadsheets and manual schedules. Meet Smart Square HMH, an online scheduling tool that aims to make staff management in healthcare more organized and smart. Created to be used by Hackensack Meridian Health (HMH), the…
Service Of Health, You may never have realized it, but when a patient is discharged, a whole internal engine of services is activated within the hospital: the financial department needs to bill the hospitalization (in the case of private networks), and the kitchen needs to cancel the patient’s meal, nursing needs to stop the medication,…
