Nursing Intensity: Innovations in Hospital Staffing

At Axsium where we deal with all things “Workforce Management,” I am interested in and gravitate to innovations and the development of new ideas in healthcare, especially those related to hospital staffing. There is much room for growth and enhancement, so I’m excited...

Fatigue Management In Healthcare

Ever since I attended the AONE conference this year, I have been puzzling over why fatigue management seems to be an elephant in the room among nursing. Everyone will agree that, in the theory, there is a problem, but there is very little being done from a practical...

I Love HR Tech. No, I Hate HR Tech. No, I…

The 16th Annual HR Technology Conference & Exposition was held at the Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas this week.  I have to admit that I have a love-hate relationship with HR Tech.  I love it because information flows fast and free.  But, information flows fast...

The Forgotten Users: What Hospitals Really Want

I’ve had several conversations in the past few weeks with hospitals that all have the same underlying theme. It goes something along the lines of:“We are frustrated with our current scheduling system from vendor XYZ and are thinking about replacing it. What are other...

EmpowerFocus 2013: It’s All About The Customer

I attended Empower Software Solutions’ annual user conference EmpowerFocus 2013 last week in Orlando, Florida. The conference’s theme was “Leadership”, but Empower’s focus was squarely on its customers. The conference opened with a video that featured dozens of...

Jurassic Park and Scheduling Systems

A few months ago, my nine and ten year old children made a big stink about not being allowed to see a particular popular movie (rated PG-13) that my wife and I had determined was a little too intense for them. So we made a compromise: We would let them see a different...