API Healthcare CEO discusses workforce management (transcript)

This is the transcript of my recent podcast with J.P. Fingado of API Healthcare. David Williams:  This is David E. Williams from the Health Business Group.  I’m speaking today with J.P. Fingado, President and CEO of API Healthcare.  We are at HIMSS in New Orleans.   What problem does API address?   J.P. Fingado: We’re trying to solve several problems.  The first is around quality of care, so we seek to put the right people at the right place at the right time to achieve the best possible outcome for the patient.   The second piece is helping hospitals control their cost and optimize the use of labor.  So if we actually optimize across everybody in the hospital, across all their facilities through the continuum of care, we’re saving the hospitals millions of dollars through the deployment of their staff on an annual basis.   There’s a third piece that’s also very important, which is improving that satisfaction of their entire workforce. Allowing them to have more control over their schedules, over their interaction with their human resource system leads to happier employees, which in return, increases productivity.   Williams:  Here at HIMSS there’s certainly a lot of discussion about electronic health records and health information exchange. Meanwhile you have a couple of things that sound like variants on those.  You’ve got not an EHR but an EER and not a health information exchange but a healthcare wo...
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