Scheduling technology alliance targets healthcare sector
According to Captor Group, the key to productivity is efficient
staff. Now the workforce management solutions specialist has launched a
dedicated solution for the healthcare sector.
The Oxon-based company has worked with IT specialist SAGA Consulting
to develop a planning and scheduling tool that will help healthcare
institutions automate staff activities — including time recording,
attendance and absence — as well as their entire workforce management
policy. In this way, the Healthcare Workforce Management solution can
also help with account planning, service levels, employee satisfaction,
resource planning and innovation needs.
An existing programme, Health Care Personnel Scheduling (HCPS), was
the result of collaboration between Captor and SAGA to develop personnel
scheduling products for specific markets.
In this next stage of development, the HCPS has been integrated with
Captor’s Efficient platform to extend its planning functionality even
further via the Efficient Planner Console.
The programme is based on the Microsoft.NET platform architecture and
will be marketed throughout Europe by both Captor and SAGA.
“This is the first of a series of sector-specific workforce management
solutions that Captor and SAGA will launch under our OEM alliance”,
explains Etienne Schreurs, CEO of SAGA Consulting. “This alliance
emphasises our understanding that a ‘one-size-fits-all’ solution will
not address the specific requirements of a sector. Each sector has its
own requirements for workforce planning and optimisation, specific to
that sector — legal requirements for working hours, qualification of
personnel and available resources.”
Source: bjhc&im December 2005
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