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Article examines the impact of hospitals dealing with high nurse turnover rate. This problem is exacerbated by a growing nursing shortage across the country …

"Once core staff gets acquainted with SmartShift web-based software – training take all of about 30 minutes – the benefits of self scheduling are imminent,” said Managing Director, Diane Bok. "Employees enjoy the freedom, flexibility and empowerment of self-scheduling, while healthcare providers optimize internal resources, reduce agency dependence and costs and boost nurse staff retention and morale."

Google Health was first launched in May 2008, and it has been slowly gaining popularity over the past year and a half.  The concept behind Google Health is that it allows patients to take control of their own medical information.  The web site has partnered with pharmacies, insurance companies, and health care providers to offer patients a way to keep all of their medical records in one convenient, accessible location

Similarly, software is becoming available to provide hospital administrators with web-based health care staffing solutions.  Stay Staffed offers a variety of IT options to increase hospital productivity while decreasing administrative costs.  Stay Staffed offers four major software programs: Stay Staffed Candidate Direct, Smart Shift Internal Staffing, and Smart Shift Vendor Staffing.

Stay Staffed Candidate Direct is a new workforce management software that optimizes recruitment.  It allows hospital administrators to post contingent workforce job openings and to screen and communicate easily with potential candidates, while using the Internet to ensure that job announcements reach the largest pool of qualified applicants.

Smart Shift Internal Staffing is a healthcare staffing software resource for open shift scheduling of nurses.  Hospitals post open shifts, which gives the internal nursing staff more control over their own schedules.  Smart Shift also allows hospital administrators to keep track of employee documentation and licensing requirements to assist with compliance.

The Smart Shift Vendor Staffing vendor management software streamlines vendor communications by allowing administrators to post open positions, analyze budgets and costs, and keep track of documentation for vendor compliance. 

As Google Health, Stay Staffed, and other forms of health care technology gain popularity, patients and health care providers will continue to benefit from the increased accessibility of information and the strengthening of communication.

Workforce Management Software at Stay Staffed^® Technologies requires no investment in hardware or software. Save time and money with customized healthcare software. Employees find the healthcare software intuitive and easy-to-use, and training takes less than one hour. Web-based workforce management can be deployed quickly and clients experience cost savings almost immediately...

Our workforce management software solutions address the age old adage “Time is money.” By implementing a complete online scheduling software program, managing multi-vendor environments and building and maintaining a contingent workforce, hospital managers spend less time filling open shifts and more time advancing patient care programs...

Web-Based Software is accessed with just an internet connection and a web browser. No software or hardware to purchase or download. And no need to worry about installing costly product upgrades. Web-based software is popular and widely used because it only requires an internet connection. If you use online banking or web-based email like Gmail or Yahoo Mail then you’ve already been using web based software. Many hospitals are using web-based software today, in every department ...

Stay Staffed's web-based workforce management software aims to increase the efficiency and staff productivity of hospitals while reducing operational expenses. Their SmartShift application delivers a hospital workforce management staffing solution for healthcare facilities nationwide. By giving hospitals more control of their internal staffing, SmartShift enables them to take advantage of their internal pool of employees, reducing dependency on per diem nurses and travelers. 

After reviewing the benefits of web-based software with respect to ROI, a significant reduction in agency costs has been found, along with improvement in administrative productivity in client hospitals. With hospitals struggling to keep staffing costs down at the same time that they maintain high-quality patient care and retain talented staff, web-based staffing solutions can provide strategic assistance.