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AtStaff Launches Healthcare's First and Only Outcomes-Driven Demand Management Staffing Solution

More predictable patient demand enables staffing resource decisions that improve patient safety, quality care, and throughput

HIMSS 2006/San Diego, Calif.—February 12, 2006—AtStaff, Inc., announced on opening day of HIMSS 2006 the launch of ClairVia, its science-based outcomes-driven demand management solution for healthcare. ClairVia elevates staffing to the strategic level with comprehensive patient events tracking and predictive modeling never before available to healthcare. Aligning the right staffing with patient demand and adjusting to patient outcome events-as they happen-ClairVia constantly refines reliable workload forecasts up to 14 days into the future.

Beth Pickard, AtStaff president and CEO says, "Finally, we can correlate how staffing skill-sets and levels impact the outcomes of a specific patient. That's never been done before." ClairVia is the only system driven by direct clinical patient outcomes for calculating the patient's need for staffing resources.

"Our system manages patient demand and its variability in the only way it can be done-by using event-driven, real-time technology," says Pickard, "And with ClairVia's advanced predictive modeling capabilities, staffing decisions are no longer relegated to the last minute when very few options are available."

Inherent in the "intelligence" of ClairVia is clinical workflow understanding and scientific expertise to measure, track, and predict the scores of variable events that produce fluctuations in demand from a patient's admission to discharge. The new software gathers real-time data from any existing hospital information system, using HL-7 interfaces, and provides it to authorized decision-makers through a web-based dashboard.

"Given a more precise picture for matching patient demand with staff supply, organizations improve both clinical and financial outcomes," says AtStaff's chief science officer Michael Warner, MHA, Ph.D. "Typically, healthcare focuses on process, with positive outcomes being its intended by-product. AtStaff refocuses staffing decisions on actual outcomes of patient care patterns."

Healthcare organizations, like Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children in Wilmington, Del., and Rapid City Medical Center in South Dakota, selected ClairVia to support multiple initiatives. ClairVia's events tracking and demand predictive capabilities not only improve care quality, patient safety, experience, and throughput, as well as staff satisfaction, they also enhance the efficiency with which those objectives are achieved.

"ClairVia was selected because it offers the functionality we were looking for, along with the ability to interface with several of our existing systems," says Connie Trusko, director of nursing projects at Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children, a 180-bed children's hospital. "It supports our patient safety goals through its tracking and monitoring features. It offers customized manager and employee dashboards, excellent report capability, and a variety of financial reports. It provides the nursing staff with individualized displays that include their monthly schedules, messages from their nurse managers, and other essential information."

Clinicians at Rapid City Medical Center are integrating patient-specific clinical care assessments and protocols within daily staffing decisions and coverage plans. "Our objective is to deliver the very highest level of care quality possible," says Rita Haxton, RN, MSN, vice president of patient care at Rapid City Medical Center. "Every clinician recognizes that quality, timely assessments are critical to helping patients get better faster. With ClairVia we're able to integrate outcomes-driven clinical requirements into staffing right at the beginning of a patient's stay and assess outcomes in real-time until discharge." Lois Ames, RN, administrator of patient services at Rapid City, will discuss improvements in patient throughput twice daily at HIMSS in AtStaff's booth 3809.

The predictive modeling capabilities developed to manage demand and drive outcomes in ClairVia are deeply rooted in advanced science that specifically accommodates the unique attributes of demand in healthcare. In a new white paper, Outcomes-Driven Demand Management for Healthcare, Warner, a former University of Michigan and Duke University teacher and researcher, explains the logic that catapults the new software ahead of anything else on the market. For a copy, visit www.clairvia.com.

About AtStaff, Inc.

Established in 2001 in Durham, N.C., AtStaff, Inc., is the first and only provider of outcomes-driven demand management solutions for healthcare. AtStaff's flagship technology, ClairVia, enables large hospitals and IDNs to look at current and near-future patient outcomes events and proactively align their staffing resources with their patient demand. Accurate predictive modeling for staffing decisions based on real-time patient care patterns lets healthcare organizations profoundly affect both their clinical and financial outcomes. For more information, visit www.atstaff.com.