Google Health, first launched in May 2008, ahas been slowly gaining popularity over the past year and a half. The Google product allows patients to take control of their own medical information, offering a way to keep all of their medical records in one convenient, accessible location.
 
Similarly, hospital management software is becoming available to provide hospital administrators with cost-effective, web-based health care staffing solutions. Stay Staffed offers three major software programs to increase hospital productivity while decreasing administrative costs: Stay Staffed Candidate Direct, SmartShift Internal Staffing Management, and SmartShift Vendor Staffing Management.
 
Candidate Direct provides an innovative workforce management software solution that optimizes the recruitment process. It allows hospital administrators to post contingent workforce job openings and screen and communicate easily with potential candidates, while using the internet to ensure job announcements reach the largest pool of qualified applicants.
 
SmartShift Internal Staffing is a healthcare staffing software resource for open shift scheduling of nurses. Hospitals post open shifts, which gives the internal nursing staff more control over their own schedules. SmartShift also allows hospital administrators to keep track of employee documentation and licensing requirements to assist with compliance.
 
SmartShift vendor management software streamlines vendor communications by allowing administrators to post open positions, analyze budgets and costs, and keep track of documentation for vendor compliance. Each vendor profile submitted for openings can be viewed based on lowest cost, experience level, or other unique position requirements, allowing management to make quick assessments and informed selections.
 
As Google Health, Stay Staffed, and other forms of health care technology gain popularity, patients and healthcare providers will continue to benefit from increased accessibility of information and strengthening of communications.