FLO is a predictive staffing command center for nurse managers.
Advance scheduling decision support
FLO provides patient census and nurse workload predictions and recommends the optimal nurse staffing levels to match nurse skill sets with clinical patient needs.
Time saving data analysis
FLO automatically incorporates all scheduling data and integrates your adjustments based on clinical expertise and departmental knowledge to intelligently prescribe the best course of action to meet your department’s unique needs.
Customized staffing plans
FLO’s optimized staffing plans are customized to your unique patient population and nursing staff, prioritizing safety, nurse preferences, and cost.
Features that make an Impact
FLO innovates your scheduling process with powerful features that automate and improve scheduling. With FLO you can be confident your schedule will meet the needs of your patients, nursing staff, and hospital while also leaving you more time to focus on areas in the department where your input can make the biggest impact.
Department Specific
Customizable to fit each departments’ unique scheduling needs
Accurate workload forecasting based on your department’s historical data
Flexible Shift Plans & Automated Assignments
Flexible shift patterns providing optimal staffing at every hour of the day
Automated shift assignment and schedule balancing
Fair, unbiased scheduling
100% Rule Compliance
Organization, Union, Department rules compliance
Skills and certifications management and compliance
Measurable Improvement for Patients, Nurses, and Department
See how FLO produced superior nurse schedules with measurable improvement in cost, patient safety, rule adherence, planning time, and personalization in a recent study.
10%
Costs
60%
Safety
100%
Rules
80%
Time
100%
Personalization
Data Sharing & Integrations
Data can be shared through file uploads or custom integrations with your Time & Attendance solution.
FAQs
FLO uses each hospital's unique data to create customized schedules.
As a decision support tool for nurse managers, FLO works in conjunction with current time & attendance solutions to create an optimized schedule. Once completed, the schedule is uploaded into the current time & attendance solution. Nursing staff would continue to use the current time & attendance solution as previously done.
A one-time onboarding process gathers data from various sources through uploads or by integration. Additional information that is not currently recorded in reports (schedule rules, etc.) can be set up manually. Once entered, the data will be used for each schedule created. Additional census and personnel data is uploaded monthly through the same process.
By leveraging predictive analytics and operational research methods successfully used in other industries, FLO provides a more accurate forecast of staffing needs and automatically assigns the appropriate number and skill set of staff to meet patient demand. The process timeline for using FLO is matched to the department's current schedule creation timeline. Automation significantly reduces the manual time required for each step in the scheduling process.
Yes, all rules are unique to each department. New rules or additional rules that are currently being followed/tracked manually can be established at any time.
FLO was developed to meet the fluctuating staffing needs of Emergency Departments. Medecipher has plans to expand development to Inpatient departments during Q4 of 2023.
Currently, FLO is used in the mid-term scheduling horizon to establish nurse schedules up to 1-2 months in advance. Medecipher is expanding development in Q2 of 2023 to include a "Flex '' option that allows schedulers to make same day schedule adjustments (due to Callouts, etc.) easily.
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