February 4, 2013 – In this article from ExecutiveInsight, Chris Fox, Avantas CEO, outlines three labor management strategies that result in increased quality care (as well as financial savings). Click here to read the article
January 31, 2013 – Jackie Larson, Senior Vice President, Avantas, and Rhonda Kowalowski, Supervisor, Patient Services at Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital (CVPH) have been featured in HFMA’s Leadership eBulletin. The piece highlights CVPH’s adoption of the strategies and technologies needed to transition to an efficient and sustainable enterprise-approach to managing labor. Click here to read…
December 10, 2012 – Chris Fox was asked by ExecutiveInsight to contribute a piece on how to select a scheduling and labor management solution (healthcare scheduling software). He provided three simple points to follow to ensure you select the right vendor regardless of what type of solution you need. Click here to read the article
November 9, 2012 – Chris Fox was asked by Becker’s Hospital Review to weigh in, along with other leading solutions providers, on strategies to help ensure smooth healthcare technology implmentations and ways of gaining user adoption. Click here to read the article
October 24, 2012 – Jamie Parsons, Chief Human Resources Officer at Mountain States Health Alliance, discusses ways Avantas strategies and tools have helped MSHA achieve $16 million in savings relative to their labor management outcomes. Click here to read the article
October 10, 2012 – Bruce Weinberg, Executive Director of Nursing Resource Management at Mercy, a 31-hospital network serving Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma and Arkansas, discusses the benefits and accuracy of the predictive modeling capabilities in Avantas’ Smart Square healthcare scheduling software. Click here to read the article
October 2, 2012 – Logan Pigg, the director of finance at Mountain States Health Alliance, a 13-hospital system in Tennessee and Virginia, discusses how Smart Square and its predictive modeling and business intelligence tools fit into the healthcare system’s efforts to bring clinical and financial reporting together into a shared data structure that provides a…
September 28, 2012 – Chris Fox was asked by Becker’s Hospital Review to share his thoughts on the importance of strong leadership and cross-departmental communication in steering a hospital through a healthcare technology implementation effort. Click here to read the article
September 13, 2012 – In the article, “Automated Staff Messaging Tools Seen as Boon by Some, not by Others,” Avantas CEO Chris Fox points out the flaws of sending mass communications to fill same-day needs and offers an effective, best practice alternative. Click here to read the article featured in Healthcare Finance News.
August 28, 2012 – Jackie Larson provides insight on a number of issues, such as ineffective policies, processes, and technologies that can lead to a nurse manager being viewed as ineffective. Click here to read the article