ShiftWise Articles 2004 - 2006
12.02.06 / Staffing Solutions Save Time, Money
When Steve Krautscheid, employment coordinator at Tuality Healthcare, needs to fill a vacancy in the two-hospital network just outside of Portland, Ore., he goes online and fills out a request form. That takes all of 30 seconds. Gone are the days when Krautscheid had to sift through reams of paperwork to find a nurse or healthcare worker qualified enough to fill a specific position...
09.18.06 / Efficient Agency Management
Three years ago, Tuality Healthcare in Hillsboro, Ore., worked with 40 local and national staffing agencies to book as many as 22,221 hours in supplemental shifts a year. "Nothing was standardized, so every agency had its own method," says Steve Krautscheid, the...
08.29.06 / Healthcare Executive: ShiftWise VMS Best Practices
Filling an open nursing shift can be a nightmare. It usually requires making phone calls until your index finger goes numb and swimming through a sea of credential paperwork, time slips, and invoices. You can hear the sound of the fax machine in your sleep. And, after all that, there is no guarantee the person who fills the shift will be up to snuff-if it gets filled at all...05.15.06 / OHA Introduces ShiftWise IRP to Ohio Hospitals
OHA Solutions, a subsidiary of OHA, has worked with ShiftWise to bring a new Web-based Staffing Management Program, Internal Resource Pool (IRP) Software to Ohio. IRP will provide work schedules with improved flexibility for hospital staff and will save money by helping Ohio hospitals to utilize internal employees to cover shifts before turning to outside staffing suppliers...05.01.06 / Temp Search Made Easier
HILLSBORO, OR - Staffing agencies appear to be overcoming their reluctance to sign on with vendor management solution companies that help hospitals fill holes in their care delivery teams. An estimated 1,000 hospitals use the systems, which help them find temporary staff to fill positions that are open due to illness, vacations or personnel shortages...04.24.06 / Conversation with Jason Lander: The Advantage of Vendor Management Services
As the company's founder and vice president of business development, Jason Lander applied his industry knowledge to create ShiftWise's one-source vendor management service, which delivers automated staffing solutions to more than 250 hospitals, 10 hospital associations and hundreds of staffing agencies. In the one-on-one session that follows, Lander discusses...04.17.06 / ShiftWise Technology Works with Healthcare to Fill Service Gaps
Similar to booking a plane ticket online, online VMS systems allow hospitals to tap into the largest possible pool of qualified, fully credentialed staff and choose the ones they want for each shift or assignment based on criteria such as matching credentials, qualifications, skill set, price, previous performance scores, previous visits, shift conditions and overtime hours...
03.29.06 / On-Line Services Simplify Staffing: IT Business Edge ShiftWise Article
Health care organizations gain control of staffing in a way that has never been possible before, by consolidating staff search, booking, billing and record-keeping into one place, with one easy-to-use interface. Health care organizations benefit from an increase in fill rates for open shifts because online VMS grants access to the largest possible pool of qualified, credentialed and available staff from internal and agency resources...03.06.06 / Cross Country Taps ShiftWise's Automated Staffing Management Technology
Portland, OR-based ShiftWise has a new licensing and co-marketing agreement with Cross Country Staffing, the largest travel nurse and allied health staffing division of Boca Raton, FL-based Cross Country Healthcare, Inc. Under the agreement, Cross Country Staffing plans to implement ShiftWise technology to administer its vendor management program...
