ALPHARETTA, Ga. -- Per-Se Technologies (Nasdaq:PSTI), the leader in Connective Healthcare solutions that help physicians, pharmacies, hospitals and healthcare organizations realize their financial goals, announced today the purchase of eShift(TM), a Web-based staffing and open shift communication and management product, from Flexestaff(TM).
"Our goal is to help healthcare organizations operate more effectively, and to attract and retain the highest quality staff through innovative staffing and productivity management tools," said Karl Straub, senior vice president and general manager, Hospital Resource Management Solutions. "Purchasing eShift is another step towards furthering this goal for our hospital clients."
eShift is designed to help clinical managers meet their fluctuating labor needs in an effective and affordable manner. It helps hospitals leverage their current staff to reduce the number of unfilled shifts. At the same time, it helps creates a more flexible staffing environment, empowering staff with improved access and control while enhancing recruitment and retention efforts.
"Our agreement with Per-Se is helping to provide proven Web-based staffing, employee communication and shift bidding technology at an affordable price to more hospitals in the United States," said Rod Hart, co-founder and president, Flexestaff.
With eShift, healthcare organizations publish and fill open shifts weeks in advance instead of relying on posted paper schedules and last-minute phone calls. Authorized staff throughout the organization can view and fill available shifts, reducing the reliance on agency personnel and limiting the need to offer premium pay for last-minute assignments. Shifts can be filled through either self scheduling, shift premium or shift auctioning. Healthcare professionals value the flexibility of choosing convenient shifts while managers appreciate the time saved from making fewer calls to fill open shifts.
"Our customers are increasingly looking to us for solutions to help control their labor costs," said Perry Russoniello, director, product management, ANSOS One-Staff for Per-Se. "eShift provides a natural complement to our current enterprise-wide workforce management offerings."
eShift is available as both a standalone solution and as a complementary add-on application to ANSOS One-Staff(R). ANSOS One-Staff is a market-leading enterprise-wide workforce management solution. Hospital users who augment ANSOS One-Staff with eShift will benefit from the scheduling information generated by ANSOS One-Staff in determining the scheduling needs and automatically generating shift requests, which they can monitor and analyze to drive down operational costs. This combined solution gives staff more control over their schedules and relieves managers of the time consuming task of manually filling open shifts.
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