Workbrain for Healthcare

The impact of Workbrain’s total workforce management solution on organizations is dramatic. Often accounting for 50% of the total operating budget, labor is a major expense item for healthcare organizations. With such a significant percentage of capital allocated to employees, optimizing workforce operations is critical.
The Benefits

Workbrain for Healthcare delivers measurable benefits to leading healthcare organizations:
- Improved Patient Care. Improve patient care with real-time census and acuity workforce scheduling. Reduce disruptive daily staffing changes that can negatively impact patient care with web-based self-scheduling and shift trading. Proactively identify and resolve labor shortages with real-time coverage alerts.
- Improved Unit Financial Performance. Automated time capture and pay rule calculations reduce payroll errors and ensure that employees are paid only for time worked and not for early departures or late arrivals. Costly overtime and agency usage decreases with demand scheduling, self-scheduling, and shift trading. Gain insight and improve unit productivity with real-time HPPD and Cost PPD reporting.
- Improved Nurse Retention and Recruitment. Improve nurse satisfaction with web accessible shift trading and self-scheduling. Reduce labor shortfalls by allowing full and part-time employees to view and select online vacant shifts. Achieve magnet status and meet JCAHO standards with skill-based staffing, alerts, and dashboards.Monitor employee absenteeism, enforce absence policies and ensure adherence to absence and leave-related regulations such as FMLA with powerful absence management capabilities.
Workbrain for Healthcare Capabilities

Healthcare organizations faced with labor shortages can't afford to schedule or manage their scarce resources inefficiently. Workbrain offers a complete workforce management solution to help healthcare organizations optimize their labor processes.
The solution includes:
- Nurse and Staff scheduling generate optimized employee schedules to ensure proper staff coverage and patient care levels. Employee access to shift trading allows nurses and other healthcare professionals to effectively manage their schedule, decreasing the likelihood of unplanned absences and coverage gaps.
- Time and Attendance accurately captures employee time and automates 100% of pay rules Full integration with existing payroll systems helps healthcare organizations reduce operational costs and meet their fiscal objectives. Healthcare organizations automating their time and attendance processes with Workbrain can achieve savings equal to 1-6% of gross payroll expenditures.
- Workbrain Workforce Absence automates the entire absence and leave process by providing a centralized system for managing, reporting and analyzing all absences. With Workbrain Workforce Absence healthcare organizations gain the efficiencies of a single integrated process and unprecedented visibility into staff availability based on absenteeism and insight into absence patterns and trends
- Robust Self-service capabilities improve nurse satisfaction and retention. Workflow-enabled self-service such as scheduling viewing, availability submission, leave requests, and real-time self-scheduling improves the employee experience, while helping to reduce costly turnover.
- Workbrain Intelligence provides real-time visibility into operations to proactively manage financial performance and patient care quality. The powerful, industry-specific workforce reporting and analysis solution provides up to date reporting and trend analysis on critical organizational metrics such as actual versus forecast for Hours per Patient Day (HPPD) and Cost per Patient Day (CPPD).
