Transparency Through Technology: The Power of Data in Healthcare

Written by Deena Kayyali | Sep 3, 2024 5:38:58 PM

Data has never been more crucial in healthcare, yet it’s overwhelming for organizations. Administrators are swamped with responsibilities and flooded by data from all angles, much of it going by unnoticed. Today, approximately 30% of the world’s data volume is being generated by the healthcare industry. This poses a significant opportunity for healthcare organizations as they develop new programs to improve operational efficiency.

Along with clinical operations, data brings a new level of transparency to full-time staffing, contract labor, scheduling, and vendor relationships, eliminating the silos that have historically dominated healthcare. Transparency allows us to better understand how the entire care continuum is performing to make real-time decisions. In workforce management, technology is at the root of data collection and is the conduit for

transparency.

Venn utilizes Kimedics, a workforce management platform that streamlines operations, improves efficiency, enables collaboration, controls cost, and helps healthcare organizations make informed decisions.

What Can You See with Enhanced Data?

Venn’s innovative workflows and custom-built technology enable comprehensive data collection that is pulled into a scorecard and KPI reporting. Enhanced data provides visibility into clinician activity, scheduling, rosters, state licensure status, facility privileges, payors, and affiliations with staffing or locums agencies. Kimedics gives administrators a line of sight and flexibility into all aspects of operations from onboarding to payment.

What Can You Do with Enhanced Data?

Data allows for more advanced analysis and informed, agile decision making. With Venn, organizations can access a range of features to achieve full transparency across every aspect of their business.

Clinician Portal—Technology makes clinician engagements easier for the entire team. There
is a new level of transparency and collaboration on scheduling and payments.
Float Pool Management—Float pools play a vital role to ensure consistent scheduling. Through Kimedics, Venn can help manage privileges, broadcast jobs and shifts to clinicians via a mobile app, schedule clinicians easily across privileged locations and track utilization.
Advanced Scheduling—Through innovative processes and technology, Venn analyzes availability among current and contingent staff, broadcasts open shifts, facilitates direct shift booking, enables location-specific staffing models, simplifies scheduling across multiple locations, and facilitates schedule sharing and publishing.
Task Management—Through technology, Venn clients can stay organized across the team’s critical task management workflows like credentialing, expirations, state licenses, privileges and overall onboarding.

How Can You Take Advantage of Efficiencies in Data?

Transparency in workforce management is achieved by providing real-time visibility into operational data. Healthcare organizations too often rely on fragmented solutions that complicate processes and create gaps in workflows. Implementing technology effectively requires three critical steps:

Step 1: Centralize workforce data, including schedules, credentials, and availability in one place along with the vendors you collaborate with. This reduces the need to track information across scattered spreadsheets and systems.
Step 2: Streamline communication and collaboration between the team, clinicians, and partners through shared access and seamless integrations.
Step 3: Access real-time analytics on staffing operations to optimize workflows and ensure a sustainable future through data-driven decisions.

Data is the cornerstone of effective workforce optimization. Technology enables enhanced data reporting, providing administrators with new insights into operational efficiency and transparency in partner relationships. This level of transparency is vital to creating agile and efficient operations that are positioned for the future.

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