Importance of Staffers

If a hospital is a machine, then the heart of this machine is arguably the centralized staffing office. The decisions made around choosing staff to utilize in the event of a shortage can seriously affect cost, productivity, and ultimately patient care. A centralized...

Structuring Cross-Departmental Teams

[Welcome back from the holidays! I am back as well and we are continuing our Healthcare Implementation Roadmap Series. If you have feedback on this series or related stories you can share, I encourage you to put them in the comments below.] As a department, IT always...

Roadmap Series Midpoint, HIMSS Conference

We have been writing a series in this blog, laying out a roadmap for a successful healthcare scheduling implementation. This is a topic that is near & dear to us since scheduling is the hub of workforce management in healthcare. And workforce management at Axsium...

Maximizing The System Solution

I’m writing this blog entry in a tool from Microsoft called Windows Live Writer. It’s designed for writing and posting blog entries. Funny thing about it: It works great for blogging. And because it is designed specifically for blog writing, it serves my needs right...

Process Automation

When implementing a scheduling system, process automation is usually one of the factors that is used to show an ROI savings. And that is absolutely legitimate. But is all process automation good? Well…to put it bluntly: No.   In this next entry in our Healthcare...

Eight Questions to Ask Yourself about Your Labor Model

It has always been my belief that questions will spur more questions. That’s a good thing because the more we ask the more we learn, and the more we learn, the better we can perform at whatever task we may work on. As they say “Knowledge is power.” We are slowly...