GE Healthcare Earns Two Workforce Management Category Leader Rankings in Best in KLAS Report
February 16 2017 - 6:47PM
Business Wire
15th consecutive year of recognized excellence
in healthcare workforce technology
GE Healthcare, a leader in workforce optimization software and
services, today announced that the company has been named the KLAS
Category Leader for both Time and Attendance and Scheduling: Nurse
and Staff categories in this year’s Best in KLAS report.
The 2017 Best in KLAS: Software & Services report is
published by KLAS, a research firm specializing in monitoring and
reporting the performance of healthcare vendors. KLAS gathers
feedback on vendors from more than 16,000 executives at 4,500
hospitals and nearly 2,500 ambulatory organizations. A KLAS
Category Leader award identifies the top-rated vendor among
competitive products for certain market segments in the Best in
KLAS Awards report.
“In the rapidly changing healthcare industry, the need for a
cost-efficient workforce that simultaneously improves quality of
care remains a top priority,” said Ramiro Roman, general manager of
workforce management, GE Healthcare. “We are proud to be recognized
as an industry leader in key workforce technology solutions,
helping hospitals and ambulatory care organizations achieve better
clinical, financial and operational outcomes and ultimately
positively impact patient care.”
This year’s recognition for GE Healthcare includes:
- Top ranking in the Time and Attendance
category, a ranking held for 14 of the last 15 years.
- Top ranking in the Scheduling: Nurse
and Staff category for the fifth consecutive year.
“My focus is bringing the value of technology to medicine,” said
Kara Marx, vice president of information services, applications at
Sharp HealthCare. “We use the Centricity time and attendance
solution across our entire enterprise so that we can have data
transparency that provides insights about our workforce. We’re also
focused on how we can use the technology to make their jobs easier.
As a registered nurse who has delivered many years of care in acute
and ambulatory care settings, I recognize that the application of
technology can solve so many paper-based challenges.”
GE Healthcare was also recognized for ‘Leading in Acute Care
Scheduling Innovation’ in the 2016 KLAS Scheduling Performance
Report. GE Healthcare was called out for its level of innovation,
focus on developing new technology, and its predictive scheduling
technology, which uses data to help project reliable schedules with
a high degree of accuracy.
GE Healthcare will introduce a new mobile workforce management
tool for Centricity™ Time and Attendance at HIMSS in Orlando, Fla.
on February 19-23. The solution brings the power of the ‘Internet
of Things’ to healthcare workforce management by enabling staff to
clock in and out from their smartphones based on innovative
location awareness using patented sensor technology. GE
Healthcare’s unique approach to time clocking helps deliver lower
cost while improving staff engagement. GE Healthcare will be
located at Booth 2943 at HIMSS.
About GE Healthcare
GE Healthcare provides transformational medical technologies and
services to meet the demand for increased access, enhanced quality
and more affordable healthcare around the world. GE (NYSE: GE)
works on things that matter - great people and technologies taking
on tough challenges. From medical imaging, software & IT,
patient monitoring and diagnostics to drug discovery,
biopharmaceutical manufacturing technologies and performance
improvement solutions, GE Healthcare helps medical professionals
deliver great healthcare to their patients.
About KLAS
KLAS is a research firm on a global mission to improve
healthcare delivery by enabling providers to be heard and counted.
Working with thousands of healthcare professionals and clinicians,
KLAS gathers data on software, services and medical equipment to
deliver timely reports, trends and statistical overviews. The
research directly represents the provider voice and acts as a
catalyst for improving vendor performance. To learn more about KLAS
and our reports, visit www.KLASresearch.com.
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