Why OptiLink?

OptiLink is a best practice scheduling, acuity, and productivity technology developed exclusively for hospitals and healthcare systems.	OptiLink uniquely provides an integrated application for measuring and staffing to real time and projected demand on a single database.
OptiLink brings performance transparency and a data-driven approach to workforce management in today’s complex healthcare environment.	The Advisory Board Company provides ongoing best practice support and expert guidance in system deployment towards your strategic goals.

Displays real patient demand, enabling you to balance assignments
Meet cost, quality, and staff satisfaction goals on each shift.
Measures real-time acuity adjusted actual census
Deploy and manage required staff precisely and efficiently.
Captures staffing effectiveness data
Ensure quality of service and JCAHO compliance.
Provides real-time decision support
Enable front-line accountability for labor-budget management.

Provides real-time decision support
Make the most cost-effective daily staffing-decisions across the enterprise.
Uses historical demand-data to predict future staffing targets
Build precise schedules day-by-day, shift-by-shift.
Provides self-scheduling capabilities and remote user access
Expand the scheduling process and increase staff satisfaction.
Displays on-demand retrospective reports
Gain insights into workforce performance, staffing and scheduling metrics, and regulatory compliance.

Provides actionable, real-time budget performance
Meet budget targets each month.
Calculates course correction targets across the enterprise, down to the department level
Focus on sources of under performance and meet monthly goals despite variances by date.
Displays color-coded key metrics and indicators
Quickly identify items that need action and develop solutions.
Enables user-defined parameters
Track productivity within a variety of volume and staff hour(s) parameters.