Healthworcs Overview

 

Healthworcs offers practical and affordable software solutions, consulting and project management services, research support, and group facilitation to healthcare and other organizations. Healthworcs offers software packages for resource management  for Surgery and Patient Care Units: Orworcs and Unitworcs  

Healthworcs can help you manage your resources in important areas: health processes and systems, staffing and scheduling, productivity management, inpatient care, clinics, emergency services, pharmacy, OR, material management, reprocessing, and project management support. We will provide a free initial consultation to determine the best approach to meet your needs. 

                      

Consulting - Project Management - Software  

New Facility Project Management and Support Services:      

Eight replacement hospital / facility expansion projects in the past 5 years; 13 overall. Offering hospital move coordination, planning, and a move task database. Staffing plans, operational preparedness planning, department move schedule development. Let Healthworcs be a flexible resource for your team! We'll work hand-in-hand with your architects, interior designer, city officials, DOT, and help you accomplish tasks related to a building project.  Many organizational tools ready for use on your project. We can lead your general move planning group and patient move planning group activities.

Operations Improvement:

Our consulting approach is highly participative and data intensive. Healthworcs is a resource for management and operational performance improvement. We combine effective use of industry expertise to match individual client needs at reasonable rates.  Healthworcs will analyze your financial and operational data, identify activity patterns, and then bring alternatives to match staffing to workload. Healthworcs engages your staff through interviews and observation of their work. Our work is designed to analyze activity volumes, improve operations, and make things better for you.

Healthworcs Software 

Unitworcs

  Inpatient Acuity and Staffing Solutions

  • Healthworcs offers patient classification / acuity packages in MS_Excel and MS_Access 

  • Unitworcs: Click this link to get a preview of our database version. Ask for a 45-day trial package .

  • Combined Unit Tool  - Customized to your CAH site. Automated spreadsheet functions. 

    • Better workload and staffing model. 

    • Excellent tracking of nursing time for projects and unforeseen events.
Orworcs

   Surgery Suite Scheduling, Peri-operative Database, and Resource Management Software. 

  • Orworcs is a scheduling system and a database that will help you manage your OR schedule and operating room resources. Recently we have added a month view for quick determination of first available times. You will be able to suggest case times based on historical results so that delays during the working day are minimized. Case delays are one of the key problems and expenses in your operation. The scheduling function is very flexible. It has a case juggling function, and color-coded scheduling grid showing free, blocked and busy times. Orworcs is easy to use and practical. It offers reports that will help you identify OR resource utilization of staff, equipment and rooms. Ask for a 45-day trial package

ED MD

Standby Time services

 

Cost Report Reimbursement for ED MD Standby Time in ERs

  • Complete analysis of all ED & Urgent Care visits. Report the standby time costs on your cost report.

  • Receive a full listing of standby time events and totals - 100% percent auditable.

  • Compare the results to time study based sampling. Chances are you're leaving money on the table.

  • Time studies cover 15-23 percent of the patient visits. Our method covers 100 percent, and give you the opportunity to know more about your ED.  

  • Analysis of MD on-call time and MD specific idle time. This can significantly increase physician related cost recovery for smaller sites. 

  • Recover $40,000 - $80,000.  Price for a single MD ER - $1000

Patient Unit Analysis & Solutions

Inpatient Unit studies

  • Unit budgeting tool for managers and directors - Create scenarios and see the resulting annual budget needs. Change patient mix, skill mix, salaries, key ratios, census. Easy to use

  • Determine your ideal roster. Determine the mix of part-time and full time staff for 8 or 12 hours options.

  • Both Management Tools  - 10 % discount.   

  • Analyze census and staffing records to determine the best full-part time mix.      
  • Are low census shifts making it impossible to attain budgeted productivity targets?

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