BWI: Takshasila Healthcare Selects Kronos to Manage Workforce in Real-Time and Deliver Quality Care

Press release from Business Wire India
Source: Kronos
Thursday, October 04, 2012 01:40 PM IST (08:10 AM GMT)
Editors: General: People; Business: Accounting & management consultancy services, Business services, Healthcare, biotechnology & pharmaceutical, Information technology; Technology; Healthcare
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Takshasila Healthcare Selects Kronos to Manage Workforce in Real-Time and Deliver Quality Care


Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Thursday, October 04, 2012 -- (Business Wire India) -- Takshasila Healthcare has chosen workforce management solutions from Kronos Incorporated to manage its workforce and deliver quality care at an upcoming healthcare facility in Bengaluru.

News Facts

-- Takshasila Healthcare, a joint venture between Kirloskar, Secom, and Toyota Tsusho of Japan, plans to open a chain of healthcare institutes across India over the next few years with an ambitious plan of offering a 20,000-bed capacity in the next ten years.

-- The first facility will open in Bengaluru with a capacity of 300 beds. The organization is rapidly ramping up employees in preparation for the opening.

-- The upcoming facility is hiring employees across various skills and job. This necessitated a reliable workforce management solution that could provide real-time workforce visibility across all aspects of the hospital to ensure quality care and high productivity.

-- Takshasila Healthcare has selected time and attendance, absence management, and scheduling solutions from Kronos, in addition to Kronos InTouch® biometric time clocks for use by all employees.

-- With Kronos, Takshasila Healthcare will have a robust workforce management system to manage its workforce from day one of commencing operations. Kronos will enable nursing managers and HoDs to have a real-time view of employee availability, and hence effectively schedule employees and make quicker decisions to ensure quality care from day one.

--Takshasila Healthcare will also be able to leverage the self-service kiosk capabilities of InTouch time clocks for frontline employees, helping drive automation and employee engagement.

Supporting Quotes

-- SV Kiran, vice president of human resources, Takshasila Healthcare India
"We decided to choose Kronos workforce management solutions right from the inception of the hospital, as effectively managing the workforce is the key to delivering quality care and creating a world-class healthcare organization. Workforce management solutions form a core set of applications for hospitals along with hospital management systems and that's the reason we decided to deploy Kronos from inception."

-- Dick Cahill, vice president and general manager, international, Kronos
"It's very exciting to work with Takshasila Healthcare right from its first hospital in India, to support and enable optimal management of the workforce as it starts on this journey in India to provide world-class healthcare across the country. We expect Takshasila to benefit from Kronos workforce management solutions to provide quality care in India through a highly engaged workforce."

Supporting Resources

-- Connect with Kronos via Facebook, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn, and YouTube.
-- Subscribe to our workforce management blogs.
-- Take a look at the lighter side of workforce management in our Time Well Spent cartoons.

About Kronos Incorporated

Kronos is the global leader in workforce management solutions that enable organizations to control labor costs, minimize compliance risk, and improve workforce productivity. Tens of thousands of organizations in 100 countries - including more than half of the Fortune 1000® - use Kronos time and attendance, scheduling, absence management, HR and payroll, hiring, and labor analytics applications. To learn how Kronos uniquely delivers complete automation and high-quality information in an easy-to-use solution, visit www.kronos.in.

© 2012 Kronos Incorporated. All rights reserved. Kronos and InTouch are registered trademarks of Kronos Incorporated or a related company. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners.



CONTACT DETAILS
Sumeet Doshi, Kronos Incorporated, +91 9892506857, sumeet.doshi@kronos.com
Hepsibah Rozario, 2020 MSL, +91 8884913468, hepsibah.rozario@2020msl.com

KEYWORDS
PEOPLE, CONSULTANCY SERVICES, BUSINESS SERVICES, HEALTHCARE, IT, TECHNOLOGY, HEALTHCARE

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