System and method for clinical workforce management interface

Abstract

A system and related techniques generate and present a clinical workforce management interface to assign nurses, technicians, therapists and others in a hospital or other clinical setting. According to embodiments, the interface may present components including an aggregate patient population profile which lists individual patients in a unit, as well as the projected workload capacity the care for those patients represents as well as an assignment bar depicting the continuity of provider assignments for that patient over a shift, 24 hour, or other period. The workforce management interface may likewise present a counterpart provider population profile which lists available care providers in a unit, as well as their capacity ratings, skill sets, shifts or other schedule and other data characterizing available clinical stuff. According to embodiments of the invention in one regard, a charge nurse or other staff manager may visually or graphically view and manipulate the provider-to-patient assignments, for instance by dragging and dropping icons or other visual elements to perform assignments. According to embodiments of the invention in another regard, compliance monitoring functions such as maintaining mandated patient to nurse or other provider ratios may be automatically performed, and the staff manager may be alerted when those or other ratios or criteria violate limits.

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