ANSOS One-Staff Application Suite

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Improve patient outcomes and manage staff expectations all in real time.

Bring Staffing Back to the Bedside

Proven ROI for Hundreds of Customers
ANSOS One-Staff has choreographed patient care for the last 26 years. For three consecutive years, users of ANSOS One-Staff ranked the solution No. 1 in the Staff/Nurse Scheduling segment, according to KLAS1, an independent research firm. Today, it benefits more than 1,000 facilities by providing: Time savings of up to 75% on staff management functions Greater recruitment and retention through staff empowerment Staffing cost avoidance of 6% to 20% via: Increased accuracy in staffing to target Greater efficiency in optimized staff deployment Improved overtime and agency cost control Greater consistency in capacity and demand determination
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In a time of intense competition for clinical talent, hospitals must manage their human resources effectively to ensure patients receive quality care. ANSOS One-Staff, McKessons enterprise productivity management solution, gives you the power to balance your organizations clinical needs with the personal and professional goals of your staff for consistently excellent patient outcomes.

Anticipate Workload Conditions

ANSOS One-Staff helps you predict, schedule and assign the optimal number of qualified staff members at the right places and times along the care continuum. With clinical relevancy, the ANSOS One-Staff solution allows management to anticipate workload conditions effectively and to meet staffing variations in real time.

access they need to quickly view, manage and print schedules in real time. Staff can easily search for available shifts and submit work and time off requests. Web Scheduler supports complete self-scheduling, allowing employees to select shifts without manager intervention. Managers can time-stage open shifts by employee tiers, ensuring equitable self-scheduling for all employees. Managers can refine schedule management as desired, using filters to help prioritize the request queue.

Expedite Enterprise Redeployment

The Enterprise Staffing Manager feature of ANSOS-One Staff promotes cost-effective staff utilization by providing a centralized display of immediate staffing conditions within the cost center, cost center group, facility or enterprise. With dragand-drop simplicity, managers can institute all staffing changes in real time, from recalibrating unit coverage to swapping assignments between employees and managers. Float staff and agency personnel can be easily identified and reallocated.

Plan Ahead with Proactive Scheduling

Using an innovative intelligent scheduler, ANSOS One-Staff generates schedules automatically based on core coverage goals, customized scheduling rules and individual scheduling preferences. By conflict-checking all requirements and automatically filling holes with credentialed staff, ANSOS One-Staff dramatically accelerates the scheduling process. A powerful scheduling simulator projects the impact of decisions on costs and patient care for efficient utilization of overtime, agency and float staff.

ANSOS One-StaffTM by McKesson ranked #1 in the Staff/Nurse Scheduling market segment for the third consecutive year. (Source: www.klasresearch.com KLAS Enterprises, LLC. 2008, 2007, 2006. All rights reserved.)

Manage Credentialing for Magnet Recognition

A centralized, integrated database of employee demographic information provides accurate, detailed data, promoting compliance with nurse-topatient staff ratios. ANSOS One-Staff provides invaluable data validation for many reporting venues, including Joint Commission, NDNQI and other state agencies, and accommodates Department of Health and Human Services audits. More than 60% of facilities that have achieved Nurse

Empower Staff with Web Scheduling Access

As a Web-based front end to ANSOS One-Staff, the Web Scheduler module grants employees and managers the

Magnet status, as recognized by the American Nurses Credentialing Centers Magnet Recognition Program, use ANSOS One-Staff for nurse productivity and reporting.

Balance Workload with Clinically Driven Staffing

Balancing your staffs workload especially during a nursing shortage has never been an easy feat. The Assignment and Workload Manager module simplifies the task, using patient acuity and workload data to accurately forecast staffing requirements. Nurse managers are able to maintain equitable workload distribution in real time, improving positive patient outcomes and staff satisfaction levels. Through workload monitoring, vacancy fulfillment, roster preparation and budget data assessment, ANSOS One-Staff provides for flexible daily staff management.

uses this data to calculate the cost centers target staffing requirements for the upcoming shift. ANSOS One-Staff creates the current and short-term roster and sends a list of employees by skill to Assignment and Workload Manager. Patient-to-staff ratios and percentage of licensed staff are visible and reported upon for each unit, by shift and by day.

Our cost study analyzed overtime usage prior to implementation and afterwards. We saw a remarkable decrease in overtime. Because we can now see shifts throughout all our campuses at all times, were utilizing our staff more effectively. We saved $3 million in nine months of using ANSOS One-Staff. Kristie Huff Systems Director Lee Memorial Health System

Comprehensive Analytics Support Real-Time Decision Making

The dynamic Web Reporting module provides personalized, rolebased views of current productivity and labor cost data in a simplified display. Executives have a clear, comprehensive presentation of the staffing information presented in ANSOS One-Staff. Graphical dashboards turn reams of data into a useful performance management tool, providing the ability to track critical variances and analyze key indicators, such as hours (FTEs) and costs by summary and trend. Real-time status tools help managers maintain overtime, agency and labor utilization on a shift-by-shift, unitby-unit basis. Managers can allocate staff in an optimal manner for their cost center, their patients and their employees while still meeting budgeted targets.

Create Dynamic Workload Assessment

Using unit-defined patient assessment screens, Assignment and Workload Manager calculates each units comprehensive acuity level, average patient level and total census. Units can reassess acuity as often as desired, implementing policies that support their best practices. Managers can easily change workload and target numbers to reflect the units current reality.

Now were able to tie in volume and growth with productivity. ANSOS One-Staff provides justification for FTEs needed for patient care. The system isnt just looking at patient census at midnight its taking into account our patient needs throughout the 24 hour day. Candra Szymanski, MSN, RN Chief Operating Officer Marlborough Hospital

Calculate Target Staffing Requirements

Acuity values and workload information are collected in Assignment and Workload Manager and sent to ANSOS One-Staff via an automated interface. ANSOS One-Staff

For More Information

For more information about McKessons workforce management solutions, please call 800.442.6767, option 2 or visit our Web site, www.mckesson.com/workforce.

About McKesson Corporation McKesson Corporation, currently ranked 14th on the FORTUNE 500, is a healthcare services and healthcare information technology company dedicated to helping its customers deliver high-quality healthcare by reducing costs, streamlining processes, and improving the quality and safety of patient care. McKesson is the longest-operating company in healthcare today, marking its 175th anniversary in 2008. Over the course of its history, McKesson has grown by providing pharmaceutical and medicalsurgical supply management across the spectrum of care; healthcare information technology for hospitals, physicians, homecare and payors; hospital and retail pharmacy automation; and services for manufacturers and payors designed to improve outcomes for patients. For more information on McKesson, visit www.mckesson.com.

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