What is Flexwise? Video Included
INTRODUCTION VIDEO
Maintaining a balance between maintaining proper clinical staffing levels while controlling labor costs is more complex than ever.
The Flexwise Intelligent Workforce Optimization platform enables healthcare facilities to proactively optimize clinical operations while ensuring proper unit staffing levels by leveraging predictive analytics By working with your current EMR, staff scheduling and time and attendance applications, the Flexwise platform brings all the data together in one place to optimize clinical workforce staffing decisions.
In particular, Flexwise is designed to help healthcare organizations achieve:
- Better Workforce Planning – Use patient demand forecasting to improve the precision of unit staffing plans, labor budgets and hiring plans up to 16 months out.
- Better Staff Scheduling– Improve workforce utilization and ensure units are properly staffed on each shift by creating staff schedules based on forecasted patient demand rather than average daily census.
- Better Unit Staffing – Reduce the day-to-day burden on unit managers to fill open shifts and quickly adjust to emergent staffing needs through improved coordination with central staffing and enhanced flex staffing capabilities.
Clinical Workforce Planning Phases
Flexwise provides decision support and operational workflow integration across all planning phases from 12-18 months down to the next shift:
Flexwise Platform Overview
The Flexwise platform is comprised of three core modules:
Flexwise PLAN
PLAN provides a planning framework for a hospital’s clinical workforce governance structure that combines predictive analytics with key variables such as productivity targets, staffing ratios, expected turnover, etc., to precisely guide the crafting of clinical staffing plans, hiring plans and workforce budgets, as well as constructing optimized staff schedules throughout the year. This provides top-down control to the entire clinical workforce planning and management process by integrating the workforce governance model with schedule planning and daily staffing decisions.
Flexwise ALIGN
ALIGN provides real-time situational awareness of staffing alignment across departments and. A sophisticated Intelligence Engine utilizes real-time modeling to find the most accurate demand forecasting algorithm for each shift by unit. By continuously monitoring demand forecasts against staff schedules, the Flexwise platform can proactively alert department leaders and central staffing resources about emergent staffing misalignments in the current schedule period and provide prescriptive guidance to optimize decisions.
Flexwise CONNECT
CONNECT enables a new on-demand staffing layer to an organization's clinical workforce model, providing direct access to regional resource pools to fill open shifts and meet emergent staffing needs.