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For the better part of the past decade, I have been in and around technology-driven vendor management in health care. In that time, I have experienced or witnessed every possible human emotion that is associated with VMS programs both good and bad. As a young staffing Account Executive, I vividly remember the fear and panic I felt when I first…
Whether they admit it or not, most healthcare organizations use temporary labor from time to time. When doing so, a typical healthcare organization reaches out to a preferred group of vendors and thus begins a process which starts with communicating the need and culminates with a check being cut by the healthcare provider sometime after the temp actually shows up…
The cloud. Heard of it lately? Thought so. Tech buzz words such as cloud and social are reaching all industries and healthcare is no exception. But how does the cloud apply to hospitals, nursing homes, home health and other segments of healthcare? Many leaders in the industry are actively trying to figure this out. Defining the cloud For the uninitiated,…
Healthcare facilities have largely been adopting some form of core scheduling for quite some time now. A scheduling application makes it easier to manage the complexity of scheduling staff throughout an entire healthcare delivery organization. It’s pretty safe to say that in 2011, if you haven’t implemented some form of automation to schedule core staff, you’re a bit behind the…
In the past two years, ‘meaningful use’, ‘health data exchanges’, ‘accountable care organizations’ and other buzzwords of healthcare reform have put a bright light on the potential of information technology to improve the delivery and coordination of care. However, I am continually surprised at how little focus hospitals put on applying these same technology benefits toward improving their staffing of…