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Optimize Your Labor
Management with Health
Catalyst PowerLabor™

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John Hansmann, MSIE, LFHIMSS, DSHS
Professional Services, VP
Dan Hopkins
Professional Services, VP

3. Article
Summary
To cut costs, healthcare leaders are looking at their
greatest operating expense—labor management.
However, with outdated labor management systems,
decision makers rely on retrospective, incomplete data to
forecast staffing volumes and patient support needs.
Limited workforce insight can result in misaligned staffing
or worse, jeopardizing patient care due to lack of labor
support. With the Health Catalyst PowerLabor™
application, part of the Financial Empowerment Suite™,
decision makers have access to a comprehensive view of
labor data by organization, department, team, and job
role. Timely insight into current and future hospital
needs allows leaders to staff to patient volume, control
escalating labor expenses, and ensure optimal resources
for excellent patient care.

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Optimize Your Labor Management
Labor encompasses nearly 50 percent of hospital
costs, and, as the greatest healthcare operating
expense, understanding and managing this cost is
critical. Increasing financial pressures—heightened
by the pandemic—highlight the urgency of
controlling escalating labor costs. Using accurate
data, organizations can pinpoint areas where
staffing hours exceed or fall short of patient needs,
allowing leaders to quickly recalibrate without
compromising the quality of care delivery.
Unfortunately, most health systems lack access to
timely, augmented intelligence (AI)-empowered
data, forcing a reliance on retrospective data that
fails to deliver actionable insights.
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Outdated Healthcare Labor
Management Systems
Don’t Keep Pace
with Today’s Workforce Demands

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Outdated Healthcare Labor Management Systems
Don’t Keep Pace with Today’s Workforce Demands
To eliminate waste and reduce costs,
leaders should turn to the largest operating
expense within their control—labor
management. However, many decision
makers still rely on obsolete systems that
lack the tools to effectively inform staffing
decisions. As a result, leaders use
retrospective and inaccurate data to guess
future patient volumes and staffing needs.
These untimely and inefficient insights
misalign staffing hours with patient needs
and waste precious healthcare dollars and
limited resources while potentially
compromising quality of care.
Eliminate Waste and Reduce Costs

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Outdated Healthcare Labor Management Systems
Don’t Keep Pace with Today’s Workforce Demands
Homegrown healthcare labor management
systems also fall short because they lack the
infrastructure to aggregate large amounts
of labor data from different source systems
including payroll, EMR, and time and
attendance—a roadblock to delivering a
complete picture of workforce needs. This
means end users rely on manually collated
labor reports and fragmented datasets to
guide staffing decisions with little valuable
insight or ability to forecast. These siloed
decisions result in guesswork that’s not a
sustainable solution as healthcare labor
management challenges increase.
Delivering a Complete Picture of Workforce Needs

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Optimize Healthcare Labor
Management with the
Health Catalyst PowerLabor™
Application

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Optimize Healthcare Labor Management
The PowerLabor application, part of the
Health Catalyst Business Decision
Support™ solutions , provides a
comprehensive AI-enabled view of labor
data by organization, department, team,
and job role. The embedded AI forecasting
predicts patient volumes, allowing for
more proactive resource scheduling. With
timely insight into future hospital needs,
leaders can close the gap between
required staffing and future patient
volumes, control labor expenses, and track
progress toward meeting budget and
staffing targets while ensuring resources
for excellent patient care.
Health Catalyst PowerLabor™ Application

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Optimize Healthcare Labor Management
PowerLabor features include the following:
 View Comprehensive Labor Data in One
Place: Department and unit managers can
analyze labor costs with an integrated view
of all labor productivity data, including
cost and hours, by organization, location,
department, team, and job role in one
location (Figure 1).
Health Catalyst PowerLabor™ Application
Figure 1: Labor expenses dashboard.

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PowerLabor features continued :
 Proactively Schedule to Volume: With a complete view of categorized labor
hours in relation to costs (e.g., regular, overtime, premium, contract labor,
and staffing mix), decision makers can easily identify labor trends,
comparisons, and rollups across departments to accurately predict labor
needs, plan for changes in staffing, and optimize staff-to-patient ratios.
 Drive Adoption with Expert Guidance: To maximize the PowerLabor
application, Health Catalyst experts help categorize and refine data through
an initial assessment and data integration from multiple data sources (e.g.,
EMR, billing, HR/payroll, time and attendance, and general ledger). More
importantly, our experts show you how to use the data to optimize your
labor resources, improve your operations, and ultimately reduce your overall
labor spend. Our implementation teams also provide train-the-trainer
sessions to drive the most effective adoption.
Health Catalyst PowerLabor™ Application

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PowerLabor Combines Technology,
AI, and Expertise for Better
Healthcare Labor
Management Outcomes

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PowerLabor Combines Technology, AI, and Expertise for Better
Healthcare Labor Management Outcomes
The PowerLabor application combines advanced technology, AI, and
expertise to ensure organizations have optimal resources to deliver
excellent patient care. With an AI-powered, comprehensive view of
healthcare labor data, leaders can adjust staffing decisions that reduce
costs, identify over- and understaffed areas, and understand exact
staffing volumes that support patient needs. PowerLabor empowers
decision makers to address 60 percent of their operating expenses
effectively, allowing them to break free of the cycle of reactivity and be
proactive leaders for their organizations.
PowerLabor Application

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