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University Hospitals of Ohio achieves staffing credential compliance and improves audit performance with ShiftWise

In a press release issued today, ShiftWise details the success of University Hospitals in Ohio and its ability to verify temporary and contract employee credentials and documents. The 11-hospital system, through its partnership with OHA Solutions, a subsidiary of the Ohio Hospital Association, has been able to achieve two key goals with ShiftWise Vendor Management System. Provide a faster, more…

Let’s Work Smarter, Not Harder

Cut costs, cut costs, cut costs. This is the mantra being sung all across corporate America and especially in healthcare due to the reduction of Medicaid payments. Labor typically represents about 65% of healthcare organizations costs. In corporate America, it is “do more with less,” but that doesn’t work in hospitals. A low nurse staffing level tends to lead to…

Five reasons why staffing agencies should (and do) embrace technology-driven Vendor Management (Part 2 of 2)

This is part two of the “Top five reasons why staffing agencies should (and do) embrace technology-driven Vendor Management.” You can read part 1 here. 3. You will get paid quicker and your payroll costs will go down. On average, it takes more than 60 days from the time a shift is worked until the check from a hospital clears the…

Five reasons why staffing providers should (and do) embrace technology-driven Vendor Management (Part 1 of 2)

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…

Temp agency invoicing: Possibly the biggest waste of time in healthcare

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…

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University Hospitals of Ohio achieves staffing credential compliance and improves audit performance with ShiftWise

Let’s Work Smarter, Not Harder

Five reasons why staffing agencies should (and do) embrace technology-driven Vendor Management (Part 2 of 2)

Five reasons why staffing providers should (and do) embrace technology-driven Vendor Management (Part 1 of 2)

Temp agency invoicing: Possibly the biggest waste of time in healthcare

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