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 However, with outdated labor management systems, decision makers rely on retrospective, incomplete data to forecast staffing volumes and patient support needs.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.

1. OPTIMIZE YOUR LABOR MANAGEMENT WITH
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Optimizing Labor Management
Labor encompasses nearly 60 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.

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Optimizing Labor Management
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Outdated Healthcare Labor Management Systems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
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.

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Outdated Healthcare Labor Management Systems
Don’t Keep Pace with Today’s Workforce Demands
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.

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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.
These include payroll, EMR, and time and
attendance—a roadblock to delivering a
complete picture of workforce needs.

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Outdated Healthcare Labor Management Systems
Don’t Keep Pace with Today’s Workforce Demands
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.

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Optimize Healthcare Labor Management with the
Health Catalyst PowerLabor™ Application
The PowerLabor™ application, part of the
Health Catalyst Financial Empowerment
Suite™, 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.

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Optimize Healthcare Labor Management with the
Health Catalyst PowerLabor™ Application
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.

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Optimize Healthcare Labor Management with the
Health Catalyst PowerLabor™ Application
PowerLabor features include the following:
 View Comprehensive Labor Data in One Place
 Proactively Schedule to Volume
 Drive Adoption with Expert Guidance

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Optimize Healthcare Labor Management with the
Health Catalyst PowerLabor™ Application
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).

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View Comprehensive Labor Data in One Place
Figure 1: Labor expenses dashboard.

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Optimize Healthcare Labor Management with the
Health Catalyst PowerLabor™ Application
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.

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Optimize Healthcare Labor Management with the
Health Catalyst PowerLabor™ Application
Proactively Schedule to Volume
To maximize the PowerLabor application,
Health Catalyst experts help categorize and
refine data through an initial assessment and
data integration from multiple data sources.
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.

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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.

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

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Tarah Neujahr Bryan, MAJMC, joined Health Catalyst in 2013 and has served as
Editorial Director and Vice President of Marketing; she is currently the Senior Vice
President of Marketing and a member of the Health Catalyst leadership team. She brings
a breadth of marketing and communications experience to her current role. Prior to
joining Health Catalyst, Tarah served as the Marketing Communications Director and
Foundation Executive Director at a community hospital, managed at an advertising
agency, was the Editor and Operations Manager at an archaeology firm, and provided triage assistance
and patient admissions at a Level-II Trauma Center. She has a Master of Arts in Journalism and Mass
Communications from the University of Nebraska and a Bachelor of Arts from Montana State University-
Billings. Tarah volunteers with Intermountain Therapy Animals and has done pro-bono communications
work for American Cancer Society, Wings Cancer Foundation, and many other non-profit organizations.
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