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Turn Workforce Insight Into Workforce Impact

Drive smarter staffing decisions with real-time workforce analytics.
Right Staff, Right Time, Right Care.
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Empower Smarter Staffing Decisions and Operational Balance

Labor is a health system’s largest and most critical investment—but often the hardest to optimize. Outdated tools, inconsistent metrics, and limited visibility make it difficult to manage labor effectively. Health Catalyst empowers leaders with the data and insight to align staffing with demand, reduce variability, and improve labor performance across the enterprise.

Standardize Labor Metrics Across the Enterprise

Establish a clear, consistent baseline for labor performance improvement.

  • Access unified labor productivity and staffing data.
  • Tailor benchmarks by peer group, shift, or department.
  • Integrate payroll, timekeeping, and operations data.
  • Apply consistent metrics to clinical and non-clinical teams.

Result: Better comparability, stronger accountability, and clearer performance goals.

Align Staffing to Patient Demand in Real Time

Stop relying on static staffing models that fall short in dynamic care environments.

  • Forecast staffing needs with predictive analytics.
  • Monitor labor use and productivity via dashboards.
  • Set real-time alerts to guide shift-by-shift decisions.
  • Improve resource allocation across units.

Result: Right staff, right place, right time—every shift.

Drive Labor Efficiency with Actionable Intelligence

Labor efficiency isn't just about cost control—it's about enabling the workforce to deliver better care, sustainably. With Health Catalyst, leaders gain the data-driven insight needed to optimize labor performance across the enterprise and adapt to change with confidence.

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Support Sustainable Labor Cost Reduction

Cut costs without compromising care by closing labor performance gaps.

  • Identify labor cost drivers and productivity outliers.
  • Analyze overtime, premium pay, and staffing trends.
  • Understand root causes behind performance variation.
  • Inform budgeting, cost reduction, and forecasting.

Result: Reduced spend with smarter, data-driven decisions.

Increase Accountability and Performance Ownership

Give teams the tools they need to manage labor effectively and independently.

  • Equip staff and execs with role-specific dashboards.
  • Track performance goals and progress by unit and role.
  • Drill down by shift or employee group to spot trends.
  • Use visual cues to highlight improvement opportunities.

Result: More engagement, better performance, and continuous improvement.

Why Health Catalyst?

Labor performance is one of the hardest areas to manage at scale. Our solution brings clarity to complexity—uniting payroll, staffing, and productivity data to guide smart, real-time decisions that support care and control cost.
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Unified labor data from across systems that connects payroll, staffing, and productivity for a single source of truth.
Real-time, role-specific dashboards that enable frontline teams, managers, and executives.
Standardized, trusted labor metrics that promote accountability and consistent performance measurement.
Proven tools for cost reduction that help optimize staffing without compromising quality.

What Implementation
Looks Like

Phase 1: Connect and Normalize

  • Integrate payroll, census, and productivity data.
  • Define benchmarks and labor targets.

Phase 2: Activate and Monitor

  • Launch dashboards and train users.
  • Set real-time thresholds and notifications.

Phase 3: Optimize and Sustain

  • Guide cost reduction strategies.
  • Enable performance improvement at scale.

Proven Outcomes

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