In-house recruiters may not be working directly with patients, but the decisions they make regarding the workforce have great potential to influence your medical group’s overall performance.
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. hospitals were already amid historic workforce shortages and shrinking budgets. Coronavirus only exacerbated this growing trend, shining a spotlight on the American healthcare system's challenges and flaws.
Topics: Industry Updates, VISTA, Facilities & Practices, workforce optimization, Telehealth
Healthcare leaders have different ideas on what workforce optimization is and why it is essential to their healthcare system. Understanding contingent staffing needs, providing in-demand clinicians to your facilities, and knowing what is costing the healthcare system, can be overwhelming, especially in today's challenging and changing environment.
Topics: Industry Updates, VISTA, Facilities & Practices, workforce optimization
VISTA recently embarked on an engagement with a large multi-specialty medical and healthcare management group to discuss the challenges they were facing. These challenges included the following major areas: cost containment, transparency, compliance, and how to reduce the dependency on locum tenens.
Topics: Industry Updates, VISTA, Facilities & Practices, workforce optimization
According to AAMC, by 2032, the American healthcare system will be short almost 122,000 physicians. This ongoing physician shortage is only going to get worse. With the lack of qualified clinicians, it is leaving healthcare systems and facilities scrambling to fill positions and balance the need for continuity of care against the need to control staffing costs.
Topics: VISTA, Facilities & Practices, workforce optimization
Human resources professionals encounter a large amount of data every day. When used correctly, this data can help increase profits and even generate revenue. The term for this deep dive into your HR data is using "HR analytics." HR analytics is defined as the interpretation of metrics for various HR-related functions. Examples of this can include training expenses per employee, the time it takes to hire a candidate or the time it takes to promote an employee.
Topics: VISTA, workforce optimization
Increasing productivity at a hospital is no small undertaking - especially given the current physician shortage impacting the healthcare industry. If there are too few clinicians available to treat patients, morale sinks, which negatively impacts productivity. But if the supply of clinicians exceeds demand, the resulting inefficiency can erode already-thin profit margins.
Topics: Industry Updates, Facilities & Practices, HR, Recruiting, Labor Strategy, Staffing Technology, workforce optimization
A talent strategy is one of the most powerful tools in an HR leader's arsenal. An effective talent strategy will help a hospital survive and thrive by attracting and retaining top-tier employees. But a talent strategy will never be as effective as it could be unless you optimize your workforce. Below is a look at the critical role of workforce optimization, a necessary tool for a talent strategy to truly succeed.
Topics: Facilities & Practices, Staffing Technology, workforce optimization
Over the past few years, telehealth has surged in popularity. Around 76% of hospitals are already using this technology, connecting with patients from a distance to help monitor their vital signs, symptoms, and current health needs.
Topics: workforce optimization, Telehealth
Consider the fact that, according to Forbes, high performers are as much as 800% more productive than their colleagues. And they cost the same as any other employee.
Topics: Interview/Hiring Tips, Recruiting, workforce optimization
