PowerLabor

1. The Challenge

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2. Our Approach

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3. Benefits

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The Health Catalyst PowerLabor™ application provides a comprehensive, AI-equipped view of healthcare labor data by system, department, team, and job role, including special contract and pay categories.

The Challenge

Health systems that have acquired ambulatory care practices—and independent ambulatory practices alike—face tremendous financial pressures and challenges to financial sustainability. If you’re an ambulatory care leader, you’re looking to improve the efficiency of the services you provide and find cost savings without negatively impacting patient outcomes, the community, or the integrity of the organization. Yet it can be difficult to access data that brings actionable insights to inform decisions to improve patient access, panel management, provider productivity, referral management, or quality scores.

Our Approach

The Health Catalyst PowerLabor™ application provides a comprehensive view of healthcare labor data by system, department, team, and job role, including special contract and pay categories, to drive better productivity outcomes. Operational users at healthcare systems can access timely, accurate, and actionable labor data in the application's reports, ensuring that labor use matches actual care needs. Decision makers can quickly find answers to questions about their labor costs so organizations can better hit budget targets and root out the cause of any gaps.

Benefits

  • Reduce labor costs and optimize resource allocation. Manage labor by volume to reduce labor spend per unit of service for all departments.
  • Analyze a comprehensive view of labor. Access details for all overtime, holiday, contract and premium hours and cost, as well as staffing mix information, in one location.
  • Optimize your staffing ratios. Implement better staffing ratios for improved safety and patient outcomes.
  • Drive adoption with timely, accurate, actionable data and professional training. Our technical and labor experts perform a preliminary assessment to ensure that the multiple data sources leveraged by the PowerLabor application — EMR, billing, HR/payroll, time and attendance, general ledger, etc. — are integrated and tuned to your organization’s needs. Our implementation teams provide train-the-trainer sessions to drive adoption.
  • Extend the value of the PowerLabor application via additional Labor Management Expert Services. Our most successful client partners engage our team for a range of strategic and operational guidance —including deep-dive assessment, strategy deployment, expanded education, and ad-hoc consulting.

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