Surgical Information Systems Announces `Staff Scheduling' ModuleATLANTA--Nov. 15, 2001-- Surgical Information Systems announces the release of its new Staff Scheduling Module, the latest innovation in its complete perioperative solution. Staff Scheduling makes it possible to build a surgical department's schedule quickly and easily while making the most cost-effective and skill-appropriate staffing and scheduling decisions. Staff Scheduling is a comprehensive, Windows-based resource management tool specifically designed to meet the unique staff scheduling requirements of the hospital surgical department. Staff Scheduling also includes an integrated budgeting facility for creating department labor budgets that can be activated automatically based on effective dates. "Hospitals today are facing enormous challenges in keeping adequate staffing levels and maintaining financial health," said Richard L. Jackson, president and CEO of Surgical Information Systems. "Staff Scheduling's Staffing Simulation and Budget Builder(TM) capabilities make it possible to test multiple scenarios and then activate the one that optimally balances available dollars with staffing resources." Staff Scheduling allows the creation of distinct personnel profiles that can track unlimited data and activity for each employee. Profiles can include, for example, information on licenses and certifications, skill levels, preferred work patterns, requested time off, and availability. Employee activities, including transfers, salary adjustments, skill level changes, personnel evaluations and terminations, are recorded in a transaction log. Real-time scheduling and conflict checking ensure that staff members are adequately skilled and licensed before being scheduled. The system ensures compliance with all JCAHO and state requirements in this area. The system's "paperless" scheduling concept takes all the guesswork out of creating a schedule that maximizes staff satisfaction and meets all clinical requirements. Staff Scheduling also makes it possible to track an unlimited history of employee attendance records and patterns, keeping a record of productive, non-productive, overtime, benefit and time-off information. The system can be interfaced to the hospital's time keeping and payroll systems, updating time and attendance records automatically without the need for additional data entry. The system also offers a powerful workload-reporting tool that instantly provides reports on personnel, performance and cost management, department and personal schedules, and staffing sheets. Users can easily create unlimited custom reports across any user-defined range of dates using a third-party reporting tool such as Crystal Reports. "We believe that Staff Scheduling will be one of the most powerful employee resource management tools on the market today," says Jackson. "This is a significant step, along with our recent addition of StatCom, in continuing to build on our completely integrated suite of products that covers The Whole Operation." Jackson adds, "We are pleased to offer Staff Scheduling as part of our continuing commitment to deliver the most comprehensive perioperative system in the industry." Surgical Information Systems offers the only perioperative system that provides clinicians and administrators ALL the clinical and financial data relative to every surgical case. The Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) Windows- or UNIX-based system has an open architecture that is tied into an Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL) database. The system includes modules for scheduling, materials management, nursing documentation, resource management, rules-based charging, documentation, PAT, pre-op, intra-op, PACU, surgical transcription and anesthesia - enabling healthcare professionals to provide the highest quality care at the lowest possible cost. Surgical Information Systems makes it possible for healthcare facilities to operate more profitably, quantify performance and focus on patient care rather than data collection. Visit the company's Web site at http://www.ORsoftware.com.
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CONTACT: Surgical Information Systems
Lisa Maggart, 770/643-5547
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Richard Jackson, 770/643-5605
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