Lifecare Resource Optimization – From resource-based to production-based plans

From fragmented planning to integrated production management

Healthcare is under increasing pressure due to rising patient demand, staff shortages, and budget constraints. Traditional planning methods, often based on spreadsheets, fail to align production targets with real-world capacity. This results in inefficiencies, bottlenecks, and financial gaps.

Lifecare Production Planner replaces guesswork with precision by integrating demand forecasting, resource availability, and budget tracking into a single automated system. It allows healthcare providers to create accurate, adaptable production plans that optimize care delivery while ensuring financial sustainability.

With built-in scenario planning, organizations can test different models, proactively adjust to changing conditions, and make data-driven decisions. Seamlessly integrating with workforce and service planning, Lifecare Production Planner empowers healthcare teams to operate more efficiently - leading to improved patient outcomes, reduced costs, and enhanced staff well-being.

Plan smarter, optimize resources

• Integrated production planning
  Lifecare Production Planner synchronizes all departments with a unified plan, improving coordination, efficiency, and strategic alignment across the organization.
• Automated capacity and budget alignment
  Automatically matches production goals with available staff, equipment, and financial resources, eliminating inefficiencies and last-minute adjustments.
• Scenario planning for smarter decisions
  Run ‘what-if’ simulations to explore different production models, assess budget impacts, and ensure optimal resource distribution before finalizing plans.

Features driving healthcare efficiency

• Demand-based production planning
  Ensures production targets are aligned with actual care needs, preventing both resource shortages and overproduction - leading to better patient care.
• Automatic capacity matching
  Compares staff, facility, and equipment availability with production goals, enabling realistic, data-driven resource planning.
• Scenario-based forecasting
  Allows planners to test multiple production alternatives, ensuring the best balance between patient demand, available resources, and financial constraints.
• Automated budget and cost tracking
  Prevents financial surprises by ensuring that all production plans align with the allocated budget, reducing the risk of overspending.
• Seamless multi-department coordination
  Enhances collaboration between planners, department heads, and finance teams, ensuring that all stakeholders work from a shared, optimized production plan.

Better care is a matter of time.

Lifecare Service Planner - a part of Lifecare Resource Optimization - is an intuitive and easy-to-use application made for the time management of doctors, nurses, and facilities.​

With the help of Lifecare Service Planner, planning becomes substantially smoother. Remarkable time savings leave more time for the most important thing, i.e. good patient care. Clear and easy-to-use views ease everyday stress and planning your own working day. ​

Flexible and transparent solution

• Smoother care experience 
  More efficient management of time and facilities reduce waiting times.
• Less stress​
  Visual views improve the management of the nursing staff's own time.
• No wasted resources​
  No overlaps or skipping hours when the entire unit's resources are managed with one application.

Better use of resources

• Shorter waiting time
  Patients don't feel like they're being pushed around when the staff's calendar is precise and up-to-date. Waiting times are reduced, and the nursing staff can focus on good care when time is not wasted on uncertainty or planning how to use time. The solution can be used to create a service plan, which takes into account the availability of resources while automatically managing the resourcing of staff and facilities by the plan.
• Less stress ​
  When you know the working days and can check them from clear calendar views, you can better control your own working days. As resourcing changes from manual to clear and manageable, stress levels also decrease. ​Service collects resource data from different systems in a uniform format and serves it in clear calendar views. From one application, personnel can easily see shift information and available spaces.   
• Better use of resources​
  Modern resource management helps to clarify the overall picture of the adequacy of resources at the outpatient clinic level. It provides a fact-based, visual view of staffing adequacy to help plan for the future and reduce idle time. ​The application's modularity and independence from the form of the output data makes it a cost-effective and easy solution that can be connected to any patient information system.

The market’s most flexible staffing planning system

Part of Lifecare Resource Optimization - or available as a standalone solution - our staffing system is tailored to handle complex shift schedules and ensure that all staffing plans comply with current labor laws and agreements. Lifecare Workforce Planner integrates seamlessly with external systems for payroll, time, and attendance, providing a holistic approach to personnel management—from planning to payroll.

With our mobile app, employees can easily view their shift schedules, report absences, and communicate with management no matter where they are. This increases flexibility and accessibility for both staff and managers. Through continuous development and innovation, in close collaboration with industry professionals, we ensure the system is always up-to-date and adapted to your needs.

With over 25 years of expertise in staffing planning, we provide organizations in the healthcare and social care sectors with the tools they need for efficient staffing and personnel management—ensuring that all aspects of resource management are handled reliably and user-friendly.

Modular, Smart, and Compliant

• Modular and flexible
  Customize the solution to your organization’s needs with 23 different modules. Lifecare Workforce Planner ensures compliance with laws, regulations, and local agreements.
• Complete staffing solution
  A staffing solution tailored for everything from hospitals to municipal services. The solution supports both long-term planning and day-to-day management, ensuring optimal use of resources.
• Easy communication
  Employees have access to their work schedules and shifts and can easily request changes. Managers create plans, ensure the right competence, handle requests, and arrange substitutes—all in real time.