Thanks to advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and related technologies, it has become possible in recent years to automate certain management functions in order to drive efficiencies and allow managers to focus on core competencies.
November 8, 2018 – The vast majority of nurses are overworked because of an ever-growing skills gap in the healthcare sector, and nursing managers are not immune. The more time spent on administrative tasks, the less time spent on critical patient care. Without an efficient labor management plan in place, it is ultimately the patient who suffers.
When scheduling healthcare workers, managers must account for many variables, such as patient population, staff shortages, existing worker availability, appropriate resource management, and more. To address this problem, many healthcare organizations are turning to automation solutions. When major components of staffing and scheduling are automated, nurses can focus on more pressing concerns, such as patient care.
“Optimizing the process helps reduce some of the common factors that can exacerbate resource constraints,” says Jackie Larson, president of healthcare labor management firm Avantas. “These common factors include not scheduling staff to their full-time equivalents, allowing imbalanced trade practices, and the overarching issue of not managing at the enterprise level.”
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