Benefits

BENEFITS

Presented below are some of the benefits of GEMHCS. Click on a link to read more about the benefits

         - IT Management

         - Schedule Management

         - Financial Management

         - Human Resource Management

         - Care Management

IT MANAGEMENT

Benefit	Radically Improve Productivity On Mission Critical Processes	Enabled a previously unavailable strategic capabilities	Provided Dramatic Savings In Time And Effort In Areas Of Prime Operational Focus
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT	Eliminates the bureaucratic impediments to the flow of information necessary to the decision making process - Security access controlled by administrator - Ability to control security by user/ employee group / unit - Security limits user to view / print reports - Maintains attendance and payroll records - Restricted external user access	- Manage employee schedules and client files electronically through the web - Scalable to 50,000 employees	- Information is captured in accordance to corporate guidelines - Store information electronically - Provides automatic reminders

Benefit	Radically Improve Productivity On Mission Critical Processes	Enabled a previously unavailable strategic capabilities	Provided Dramatic Savings In Time And Effort In Areas Of Prime Operational Focus
SCHEDULE MANAGEMENT	- Reduces master scheduler and after hour nurse staff scheduling time - Schedules staff for any healthcare entity or department ( nursing, radiology, food services, housekeeping, maintenance) - Centralization, decentralization or clustering of staffing - Scheduling across multiple sites - Scheduling of unlimited multiple shifts - Multi facility, multi-departmental, multi-unit master scheduling - Schedules based on corporate defined rules / policies - Resource skill sets matched to clients needs - Ability to manage unlimited schedules	- Multiple user access -Remote access to master schedules 24 hours a day 7 days a week through the web - Identifies employee availability, contact information and work schedule preferences on the fly - Manages shift exchanges/ trades using drag and drop technology - Apply scheduling rules with each schedule adjustment with rule deviation displayed in real time with alarm and visual description - Real time updates of master schedules - Displays in real time staff counts by ward / program & building - Manages staffing deployment by (shift by shift, daily, weekly, time period, location & unit) with exception override - Create exceptions anytime into the future - Schedulers are alerted when overtime is to be incurred - Move forward or back through schedules (day, week, month) - Easy to read, graphic, color coded schedules with pop up calendars	- Track and Rank staff (float & agency) utilization by overtime, producing & non producing time - Identify schedule inconsistencies - Manage historical schedules (active, on leave, maternity etc.) - Ability to set up scheduling patterns with varying pattern lengths per individual or group - Unlimited master scheduling rotations - Holds vacant positions in a master schedule - Accommodates unlimited schedule changes and advanced booking requests - Prevents employee double booking - Pools resources across multiple units / facilities - Find out who is available and change relief personnel quickly - Split shifts across multiple employees - Reduces mileage charges by scheduling home care staff by proximity to client using postal code - Avoids union / seniority issues by scheduling by rank

Benefit	Radically Improve Productivity On Mission Critical Processes	Enabled a previously unavailable strategic capabilities	Provided Dramatic Savings In Time And Effort In Areas Of Prime Operational Focus
FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT	- Ability to track, compute and automatically record multiple types of pay earnings ( straight time, half time, time & a half etc. ) - Provide audit trail on time card adjustments		- Reduce payroll and billing Errors - Charge employee work hours to one or more cost centers - Monitor cost center accounts (e.g. overtime vs. straight time) - Group time cards by employee and group

Benefit	Radically Improve Productivity On Mission Critical Processes	Enabled a previously unavailable strategic capabilities	Provided Dramatic Savings In Time And Effort In Areas Of Prime Operational Focus
HR MANAGEMENT	-Maintain employee data (demographic, certifications, skills, contact information) -Manage Seniority issues -Track re-certification and other mandatory training requirements -Identify staff availability or non availability by time, shift & shift class	- Access employee and client information 24 hours a day 7 days a week - View qualified replacement staff available - View employee information when performing staffing activities - Organization wide access to staff for relief replacement	- Assign multiple positions / jobs per employee - Manage time banks (sick, vacation, time in lieu, overtime) - Track absence incidents (date, assignment, type, reason) - Track employee work preferences (Shift, day, time block, area) - Facilitates personnel performance appraisals

Benefit	Radically Improve Productivity On Mission Critical Processes	Enabled a previously unavailable strategic capabilities	Provided Dramatic Savings In Time And Effort In Areas Of Prime Operational Focus
CARE MANAGEMENT	- Real time clinical assessment - Quick reminders for checking certifications et al - Master schedules can be viewed or printed with two click of the mouse - Quick schedule reschedule staff quickly so that there is more time to care	- Organization wide access to staff for relief replacement	- Create a sense of Job satisfaction by allowing more time to care.