Homecare Planning Solution

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The Quintiq Home Care Planning Solution

The Quintiq Home Care Planning System provides home-based care organizations with a single centralized planning solution for strategic planning and employee management. The Quintiq Home Care Planning System eliminates the need for a variety of independent and unconnected planning and scheduling systems. With the Quintiq Home Care Planning System, you get a complete overview of resources in use at any given moment. This integrated approach allows you to assess the performance of your organization against KPIs, making it possible to see trends and make strategic decisions.

The Quintiq Home Care Planning System provides the following advantages:

• Optimal use of people, resources and materials -- By taking a wide range of variables into account, the system increases employee availability.
  
  
• Reduced labor costs -- Due to improved employee management, the Quintiq Home Care Planning System enables you to reduce overtime and the need for external temporary labor.
  
  
• Greater client satisfaction -- Accurate, detailed schedules let you inform clients precisely when to expect their caregiver. In addition, client preferences regarding times and caregivers can be taken into account.
  
  
• Greater employee satisfaction -- The Quintiq Home Care Planning System employee management capabilities allow you to accommodate employee preferences and requirements, such as a preferred shifts, allergies and preferred work region.
  
  
• Reliable and useful management information -- Reporting capabilities analyze critical information such as employee availability, competencies and the number of resources used. These analyses provide a base for home care and home health care capacity planning and effective employee management.
  
  

Optimized Employee Management

Human resource management plays a crucial role in the financial success of any home health care organization. The Quintiq Home Care Planning System optimizes employee management by enabling you to:

• Efficiently plan human resources capacity

• Generate an optimal selection of employee-provided services

• Accommodate shift preferences to help increase employee satisfaction

• Comply with labor laws and collective bargaining agreements

• Easily distinguish between contract hours and planning hours

• Simplify the exchange of shifts among employees
  

The result: increased employee satisfaction and performance.

Integrated Route Planning

The Quintiq Home Care Planning System is equipped with an integrated route planning option. Based on the client's address information, the Quintiq Home Care Planning System maps out routes and calculates employee travel times. This information is then incorporated in the resource planning.

The Quintiq Home Care Planning System easily connects to established patient registration and information systems. Employees communicate directly with the system using a Pocket PC and a mobile network to report activities and access information.

Key Benefits of the Quintiq Home Care Planning System

• Fully configurable -- Supports user-defined standards, rules and regulations
  
  
• Highly flexible – The Quintiq Home Care Planning system can grow with your organization and change as your needs change.
  
  
• Scenario and 'what if'-based optimization
  
  
• Multi-user – Supports from just a few to several thousands of users, including human resource managers, team leaders, and management
  
  
• Multi-platform communication – Supports the Internet, PDA and PC clients
  
  
• Multi-resource planning - Schedules equipment, cars and other organizational resources; aligns resource planning with employee availability.
  
  
• KPI-based decision support
  
  
• Real-time planning