API Healthcare ShiftSelect® Earns 2015/2016 Category Leader Ranking in the Latest Best in KLAS Report
February 01 2016 - 02:39PM
Business Wire
Cloud-based staffing and scheduling solution
earns top honors for second consecutive year Innovative software
enables employees to meet the staffing needs of the hospital
API Healthcare, a GE Healthcare Company, and a leader in
workforce management technology and services, today announced the
company’s cloud-based staffing and scheduling solution,
ShiftSelect, has been awarded the 2015/2016 Category Leader award
in the 2015/2016 Best in KLAS: Software & Services
report. This is the second consecutive year ShiftSelect has
led the Staff/Nurse Scheduling category.
API Healthcare is a favored vendor for organizations seeking
technology to ensure budgets are met and patient care quality
remains high through improved employee engagement in staffing
operations. Through its collaborative staffing software,
ShiftSelect empowers employees to be part of the workforce
deployment process, helping ensure optimal patient coverage while
minimizing labor expenses. ShiftSelect enables employees to meet
the staffing needs of the hospital through the selection of open
shifts. This helps ensure optimal patient coverage, resulting in
increased employee engagement and reduced labor costs.
“Research shows that patient satisfaction and nurse satisfaction
are inextricably linked in terms of generating quality care
experiences for patients,” said API Healthcare VP & GM, Lisa
LaBau. “ShiftSelect enables hospitals to create a positive work
environment where staff feel engaged and empowered, ultimately
leading to a better overall experience for the patient. We are
proud that KLAS continues to recognize us as category leaders, and
pleased that our clients continue to benefit from our innovations
and advancements in workforce management technology.”
“Compared to other solutions, ShiftSelect methodologies and
tools have consistently delivered superior results for our
organization,” said Providence Health & Services Southern
California Regional Director of Staffing Services, Tammy Turner.
“In addition to helping us achieve our staffing and care quality
goals, ShiftSelect has helped us improve employee engagement,
making it popular among the nursing staff at our award winning
medical centers.”
“ShiftSelect, along with other leadership initiatives, allowed
us to focus our attention on the critical requisites of the Magnet
Journey,” said Carolinas HealthCare System Senior Vice President -
System Nurse Executive, Mary Ann Wilcox. “The use of ShiftSelect
provided a valuable platform for our nurses to actively engage in
staffing, which has been shown to enhance nursing satisfaction and
engagement. The ability to access resources from other units
throughout the enterprise gives us the opportunity to reduce
critical staffing incentives while increasing leadership
satisfaction with staffing resources, all while achieving
continuous improvement in labor expense utilization.”
The 2015/2016 Best in KLAS: Software &
Services report is published by KLAS, a research firm
specializing in monitoring and reporting the performance of
healthcare vendors. KLAS gathers feedback from more than 16,000
executives at 4,500 hospitals and nearly 2,500 ambulatory
organizations to give input on the vendors. A KLAS Category Leader
award identifies top-rated vendor products for certain market
segments in the Best in KLAS Awards report.
About API Healthcare
API Healthcare (www.apihealthcare.com) is focused on workforce
optimization solutions exclusively for the healthcare industry. The
company’s staffing and scheduling, patient classification, human
resources, talent management, payroll, time and attendance,
business analytics, and staffing agency solutions are used by more
than 1,600 health systems and staffing agencies. Founded in 1982,
API Healthcare has been rated by KLAS in the Top 20 Best in KLAS
Awards Report (www.KLASresearch.com) as the top staffing and
scheduling solution for four consecutive years (2012-2015).
GE Healthcare
GE Healthcare provides transformational medical technologies and
services to meet the demand for increased access, enhanced quality
and more affordable healthcare around the world. GE (NYSE: GE)
works on things that matter - great people and technologies taking
on tough challenges. From medical imaging, software & IT,
patient monitoring and diagnostics to drug discovery,
biopharmaceutical manufacturing technologies and performance
improvement solutions, GE Healthcare helps medical professionals
deliver great healthcare to their patients.
About KLAS
KLAS is a research firm on a global mission to improve
healthcare delivery by enabling providers to be heard and counted.
Working with thousands of healthcare professionals and clinicians,
KLAS gathers data on software, services, medical equipment, and
infrastructure systems to deliver timely reports, trends, and
statistical overviews. The research directly represents the
provider voice and acts as a catalyst for improving vendor
performance. Follow KLAS on Twitter
at www.twitter.com/KLASresearch.
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