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Abra
Abra

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Description

Product Description:
It's finally here. A talent marketplace platform designed exclusively for the healthcare IT community: Abra transforms the way Healthcare IT teams are formed and maintained, offering a more efficient utilization of the limited and highly skilled talent pool that health systems depend upon every day. Abra aggregates the most comprehensive sources of talent including independent contractors, consulting firm benches, and even shared capacity of other health system application teams. The Result? Better talent access, workforce flexibility, and significant cost savings.
About Abra:

Matching you to the talent you need, right when you need them.

Abra’s skills matching technology matches you to the Health IT talent that fit your needs while decreasing your costs to employ them by 20-40%. Let us show you how.

Product Description:
  • On-demand staffing: ShiftMed provides hospitals with on-demand access to a pool of 450,000+ qualified healthcare professionals to fill staffing gaps and meet fluctuating patient volume needs.
  • Time and cost savings: By reducing the need for costly agency/travel staffing solutions, reducing overtime costs, and increasing efficiency, ShiftMed can save hospitals time and money.
  • Quality assurance: ShiftMed's rigorous screening and onboarding process ensures that the healthcare professionals working with hospitals are qualified and experienced, reducing the risk of staff turnover and maintaining consistent quality of care.
  • Enhanced staff retention: By providing healthcare facilities with a pool of qualified healthcare professionals, ShiftMed can help reduce staff turnover, which in turn reduces recruitment and training costs.
  • Flexibility: ShiftMed's platform offers healthcare facilities and professionals a flexible and convenient way to manage work schedules and connect with each other, increasing opportunities for successful and satisfying work experiences.
About ShiftMed:

ShiftMed is the complete healthcare workforce solution, combining internal resource management technology with an on-demand workforce marketplace, to help organizations efficiently manage internal resources and seamlessly supplement their workforce with external workers.

Compatibility level

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Clients

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Use Cases

Description:

Enterprise system consolidation post merger and acquisition:

As health systems consolidate enterprise systems for their EHR, HRIS, Service Management, Supply Chain, and Financial systems, they typically require a significant amount of supplemental staffing of specialized consultants to assist with the system consolidation effrots and supporting the legacy systems. Traditionally, IT leadership would partner with a staffing or consulting firm to build and manage a team to support these types of large projects, which carry budgets in the range of the tens of millions of dollars. By leveraging Abra to build a project team, IT leaders are able to shave their budgets for this type of an effort by 30%.

Pediatric use cases:

Same application as non-pediatrics.

Users:

Application Leaders & CIOs.

Description:
  • XYZ Hospital is a large hospital that serves a diverse patient population with a range of medical needs. Due to fluctuations in patient volume, staff absences, and other factors, the hospital has experienced challenges in maintaining adequate staffing levels. As a result, they have had to rely on costly agency staffing solutions and have struggled to maintain consistent quality of care for their patients.
  • To address these challenges, XYZ Hospital decides to partner with ShiftMed, a healthcare staffing platform that connects healthcare facilities with qualified healthcare professionals. Through the ShiftMed platform, XYZ Hospital is able to find and book qualified healthcare professionals, such as registered nurses, respiratory therapists, and medical assistants, to fill staffing gaps on a flexible, on-demand basis.
  • Using ShiftMed's platform, XYZ Hospital is able to manage their staffing needs more efficiently and effectively. They can quickly find qualified healthcare professionals to fill staffing gaps, ensuring that their patients receive the care they need. Additionally, ShiftMed provides features such as real-time scheduling, communication tools, and performance tracking, which help to ensure that XYZ Hospital is able to manage their workforce more effectively and efficiently.
  • By partnering with ShiftMed, XYZ Hospital is able to improve the quality of care they provide to their patients while also reducing staffing costs and improving employee morale.
Pediatric use cases:

Pediatric healthcare facilities such as children's hospitals, pediatric clinics, and pediatric home healthcare agencies can use ShiftMed to find and book qualified healthcare professionals with experience in pediatric care, such as pediatric nurses and pediatric medical assistants.

Users:
  • The users of ShiftMed include healthcare facilities such as health systems, hospitals, nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and home healthcare agencies, as well as healthcare professionals such as nurses, certified nursing assistants, and medical assistants. 
  • Healthcare facilities use ShiftMed to find and book qualified healthcare professionals to fill staffing gaps, while healthcare professionals use ShiftMed to find flexible work opportunities and to manage their schedules and career growth.

EHR Integrations

Integrations:

None provided

EMR Integration & Relevant Hardware:

None provided

EMRs Supported:

Epic, Cerner, Meditech, Allscripts, NextGen, athena, GE, eClinicalWorks, McKesson, Other, Allscripts/Eclipsys, Athenahealth, Azalea Health/Prognosis, CPSI, Evident, Healthland, MEDHOST, MedWorx, QuadraMed, Self-developed, Would prefer not to disclose

Hardware Compatibility:

Desktop, Mobile / Tablet (native app)

Integrations:

ERP system, Credentialing

EMR Integration & Relevant Hardware:

Not applicable

EMRs Supported:

Not applicable

Hardware Compatibility:

Desktop, Mobile / Tablet (native app)

Client Types

Differentiators

Differentiators vs EHR Functionality:

None provided

Differentiators vs Competitors:
  • Price: 20-40% cost savings to engage the same exact staff
  • Access: Access to surplus talent capacity from other employers
  • Facilitation of fractional capacity engagements
  • Speed: Results are instant
  • Transparency: Visibility into real-time market capacity of niche skillsets
Differentiators vs EHR Functionality:

Fully interoperable with any nurse scheduling system

Enables health system to create their own internal agency

Differentiators vs Competitors:
  • ShiftMed uses a W2 workforce instead of a 1099 workforce, which means that the healthcare professionals who work with ShiftMed are considered employees, rather than independent contractors. By using a W2 workforce, ShiftMed is able to provide a higher level of support and stability for its healthcare professionals, and assumes the risk for its health system partners.

  • ShiftMed integrates with UKG (Ultimate Kronos Group), a workforce management and human capital management software, to provide a seamless experience for healthcare facilities and professionals. The integration allows healthcare facilities using UKG to access ShiftMed's platform and book qualified healthcare professionals directly from within the UKG platform. This helps to simplify the staffing process for healthcare facilities, enabling them to manage their workforce more efficiently and effectively.

  • ShiftMed has partnered with Uber Health to provide reliable and efficient transportation for healthcare professionals using the ShiftMed platform. Uber Health is a HIPAA-compliant transportation solution that enables healthcare providers to order rides for their patients and employees. Through the partnership, ShiftMed healthcare professionals can use Uber Health to get to and from their shifts at healthcare facilities, ensuring that they arrive on time and are able to provide high-quality care to their patients.

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