Peter Dinham
Wednesday, 17 June 2009 11:22
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Technology
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The Mater Healthcare Group has deployed IBM’s Cognos workforce planning solution in its seven Brisbane hospitals where it employs 7,000 staff and provides healthcare to 500,000 patients a year.
The executive director of people and learning at
Mater Health Services, Caroline Hudson, said today that like many other
health care providers, the Mater group had previously used multiple
decision-support tools that used different sets of rules to measure
attrition with no consistency, and “as a result, there was uncertainty
and conflict when determining if the data was accurate.”
“IBM Cognos will provide us with certainty and transparency to plan for
job role requirements – from doctors, midwives and nurses through to
our valued army of volunteers.
“With IBM Cognos we have a 99.8 percent confidence in the data being
robust. This will provide our organisation with intelligent, actionable
information that drives consistent, timely care and sound business
decisions that health plans need today.”
According to IBM, deployment of its workforce planning solution will
give the Mater group the ability to better predict future demand for
nurses, doctors and their entire health care workforce, “improving the
provision of future patient care using IBM software for workforce
planning and analytics.”
Caroline Hudson says “the power of the IBM Cognos solution enables us
to be forward thinking. We can now extract bottom-line data to spot
trends which will then put us on the front foot to react quickly and
adjust staffing as needed. For example, in providing the organisation
with accurate and informed attrition rates across the organisation,
we’ll be better able to fill the talent vacancy pipeline in time to
meet the organisation’s moment of need.”
Hudson said the decision to choose the IBM Cognos solution followed an
organisational review of several industry solutions but “only IBM
Cognos was able to provide the scalability and robust reporting, along
with the essential implementation services, required for long term
scenario planning and talent management.”
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