Management Database System (MDbSys)
Management of a health care enterprise requires strict attention to the monitoring and control of resources, and the largest single resource in any health care enterprise is personnel. It is important that health care enterprises define required labor resources at the department level, and have a means of monitoring actual versus required hospital staffing on a continuous and timely basis to ensure the most cost-effective use of this expensive resource.
Once reliable workload standards have been developed, these standards must then be translated into required hours and required hospital staffing for comparison to actual performance. Such comparisons will assist managers in making staffing decisions that will more closely align actual hospital staffing with required workload. Accurate alignment of required and actual hospital staffing will maximize staff utilization and minimize costs, without disruptions in service.
Effective management of labor productivity requires a commitment and involvement at all levels of management. It also requires the distribution of prompt, informative, and understandable productivity performance reports to these management levels.
This tool was developed by Applied Management Systems (AMS) to provide health care organizations with a cost-effective hospital productivity monitoring system. The AMS MDbSys meets all of the criteria described above and is appropriate for use in any size organization with department-level productivity standards, regardless of whether these standards have been developed by AMS, by other firms, or by the organization itself.
Labor Resource Monitoring System (LRMS)
The LRMS created by AMS can provide shift, daily, weekly and monthly reports, as well as allow users to input specific timeframes in order to quickly learn the operational status of your various nursing areas.
Designed to run in a networked environment, LRMS provides concise, meaningful management reports at the department and division levels. It takes data that is typically captured and organizes it into relevant information sets that help you see at-a-glance how each unit, department or division is performing. This easy-to-use tool provides essential information to support your decision making as well as your reports to management.
Patient care managers need reports that combine relevant indicators of workload and calculate required hours for comparison to actual hours. This tool is highly flexible, enabling you to adapt the forms and reports to the unique needs of any area within your organization – inpatient, outpatient, surgical suite, and so on. More importantly, it gives you accurate, timely information that can help you manage to budget, adjust actual to required hospital staffing levels, adjust staffing mix and assess productivity.