Manpower Deployment Planning in Healthcare

Optimal patient care through motivated nursing staff

The healthcare industry has been a dilemma for many years: on one hand you have exponential costs and the need to reduce these, on the other the goal of optimal patient care and accommodation. X/TIME^®-PEP determines the best possible coverage, not only reducing costs, but also increasing employees’ motivation and satisfaction. Amongst others, variable shift patterns, i.e. with split shifts or flexible working-time models, current balances, station care, increased emergency-room needs, employee wishes as well as on-call duty and service readiness can be considered. In the nursing-services and hospitals realm, as a general rule, planning is based on the number of: patients, operations or occupied beds. Employee wishes are considered. Social fairness for allocating night, late and early shifts is guaranteed.