WHY

Agenda Health

  • Hospitals strive to recruit and retain therapists as well as control labor costs. Today, effective and efficient scheduling is more important than ever before.

  • Outdated, inadequate staffing practices can have serious consequences for patient outcomes and employee morale. And the research backs it up, showing a direct correlation between staff engagement and the patient experience.

  • There are many variables to creating the perfect schedule to ensure every patient receives quality care for the best outcomes.

  • There are so many variables your therapy manager must consider daily and hour to hour, making rehabilitation scheduling one of the most stressful and complicated tasks in healthcare.

  • Free up time and resources for patient care and quality outcomes.

WHAT

We Do

AgendaHealth automates even the most complicated of schedules. It considers patient availability and preferences, therapist availability and specialty, and current daily therapy tallies to maintain compliance with CMS (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) guidelines for every patient and therapist across a complex organization.

  • Therapist specialties, absences, training, and vacations

  • Patient profiles, preferences, and scheduled treatments

  • Compliance with CMS guidelines based on minimum daily therapy requirements (900min).

Everyone in the organization will benefit. We are talking about reducing planning time to about 80%, allowing everyone to focus on patient outcomes and care.

Automated rules-based scheduling will empower a planner to reduce administrative tasks considerably and respect everyone's time: Patients, therapists, therapy aides, and nursing staff.

For Therapy Managers, automated scheduling facilitates:

  • Greater equity and fairness in the distribution of caseload

  • Keeping up morale

  • Increase communication with patients and family

  • Be assured patient preferences are always taken into consideration

HOW

We Do It

To create a schedule automatically, AgendaHealth developed a complex algorithm that relies on different pre-established "rules" according to the needs of all participants. The "rules" consider the requirements from all involved parties: therapist specialty, patient preferences, and scheduled treatments.

Our platform will calculate every possible combination and presents an optimal therapy schedule that best meets the rules defined by all the established priorities.

There are no schedules that are too complex to be automated. On the contrary, the more complex the scheduling parameters, the more automated the process.

Gone are the days of keeping everything on spreadsheets, magnet boards, post-it notes, and hallway reminders. The time-consuming task of keeping track of all these pieces of information and scrambling to create an optimal schedule is gone. In its place is an efficient, simple, and automated process that reduces time and ensures compliance.