Ensure you have the right staffing levels in your lab when you need them

With critical staffing shortages continuing to plague healthcare, getting the right people in the right place at the right time is a challenge for lab leaders. But what if you had the ability to resolve staffing shortages before they happen?

hc1 Workforce Optimization uses trained artificial intelligence models to project future volume trends and provide actionable recommendations to optimize your staffing levels.

 

How can we overcome the struggle to keep up with volume demands in our lab?
Understaffing is causing our lab to miss benchmarks and turnaround times on critical and urgent tests; what can we do?
My lab is being asked to do more with fewer resources, is this even attainable?
How can our lab deal with staff burnout and retention issues?

Lab scheduling software to optimize your staffing levels

With 59% of labs currently understaffed, a continuing burden is being placed on lab professionals to do more with less. This is resulting in increased staff burnout, higher turnover rates, rising sendout testing and short-term staffing costs and missed turnaround times.

hc1 Workforce Optimization helps lab leaders precisely schedule staff by predicting demand for lab services across the organization and suggesting specific, department-level resource adjustments.

 

Optimize staffing levels based on volume by department

Our artificial intelligence model uses your historical volume and time tracking data and future schedules to predict demand for lab services and identify potential staffing issues.

Minimize sendout and short-term staffing costs

Actionable recommendations help you precisely schedule staff according to anticipated volume, reducing your reliance on sendout testing and travel techs.

Decrease staff turnover and burnout caused by understaffing

Proactively identify staff scheduling shortages or overages so you can adjust resources accordingly and balance workloads.

Reduce TaT to improve patient outcomes

Optimize staffing levels in each department to ensure you’re set up to meet turnaround time benchmarks.

Make better, faster, more confident staff scheduling decisions

Watch our 5-minute product demonstration to see how hc1 Workforce Optimization uses AI and predictive analytics to provide staff scheduling recommendations that help you balance workloads, retain employees and reduce labor costs.

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Workforce Optimization provides a data-driven solution for lab staff scheduling

By leveraging artificial intelligence to project future test volumes by department, Workforce Optimization enables lab leaders to proactively identify potential shortages or overages, adjust staffing assignments accordingly and monitor the business impact of changes over time.

Monitor trending and predicted staffing levels

Productivity baselines compared against test volume show whether your staffing levels are optimized, by department on a day-by-day basis. Our artificial intelligence model studies historical test volumes to predict demand up to six weeks into the future and identifies potential staffing issues based on department schedules.

Utilize AI-powered scheduling recommendations

Our artificial intelligence model suggests specific, department-level resource adjustments to address predicted future staffing shortages and overages. Drill in for more details, including recent department history and predicted staffing levels with or without the recommendation. Export or email a task list to ensure follow-through.

Assess the business impact of staffing changes

Review historical recommendations and assess their impact on key metrics such as staffing cost per day, labor cost per test, productivity and turnaround time. Drill through to see departmental breakdowns and compare results to a user-defined baseline. Look ahead to the potential business impact of recommendations in future weeks.

Monitor trending and predicted staffing levels

Productivity baselines compared against test volume show whether your staffing levels are optimized, by department on a day-by-day basis. Our artificial intelligence model studies historical test volumes to predict demand up to six weeks into the future and identifies potential staffing issues based on department schedules.

Utilize AI-powered scheduling recommendations

Our artificial intelligence model suggests specific, department-level resource adjustments to address predicted future staffing shortages and overages. Drill in for more details, including recent department history and predicted staffing levels with or without the recommendation. Export or email a task list to ensure follow-through.

Assess the business impact of staffing changes

Review historical recommendations and assess their impact on key metrics such as staffing cost per day, labor cost per test, productivity and turnaround time. Drill through to see departmental breakdowns and compare results to a user-defined baseline. Look ahead to the potential business impact of recommendations in future weeks.

See how much your lab could save with hc1 Workforce Optimization

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hc1 expertise combined with AI and ML makes being proactive a reality

hc1’s team of data scientists leverages artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in various applications. We are helping to identify early access at-risk Alzheimer’s patients, bring life-saving drugs to market sooner and identify at-risk patients across a variety of disease states.

We’re also using AI in Workforce Optimization to solve a crucial operational problem for lab leaders: predicting demand for lab services across the organization. hc1’s machine learning model takes existing lab volume and HRIS data, measures it against a large existing dataset and projects future trends. We then turn these insights into direct, actionable recommendations to optimize your staffing levels.

 

Workforce Optimization On-Demand Webinar

See how hc1’s new Workforce Optimization solution helps labs resolve staffing shortages before they happen.

This 30-minute on-demand webinar includes a live demo of the solution, which predicts demand for lab services and provides leaders with AI-generated staff scheduling recommendations.

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American Oncology Network joins hc1 as development partner

Read this press release to learn about the development partnership between hc1 and American Oncology Network (AON), a rapidly growing network of community-based oncology practices across the country and how hc1 Workforce Optimization will enable AON’s cancer care team to optimize lab staffing.

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