Mitigate reimbursement and cost pressures – without adversely affecting patient care
Use the intelligence from Optimé Big Data and Advanced Analytics to optimize your workforce
Are you firefighting every day on tactical staffing challenges?
Avoid fragmentation of thinking, unify data from all sources to make informed workforce deployment decisions
Understand seasonality and variability of patient volumes and let Optimé Recommendation Engines guide you to better staffing
Enhance patient care through algorithmic matching of staffing needs with employee skill and experience levels

















Built at the intersection of
healthcare and execution.
Built at the intersection of healthcare and execution.
For over three decades, we have worked alongside healthcare organizations to turn complex workforce strategy into operational reality.
Our focus is not experimentation, but execution — delivering systems and intelligence that work inside real clinical environments, not around them.
& digital health engineering
Optimé by SSI — Workforce Intelligence for Healthcare
The Optimé Solution
Leveraging the Big Data from your EMR / HER, HR, Financial and Operational Systems!
Demand Planning
Workforce Strategy
Workforce Management
Scheduling & Staffing
Performance Monitoring
Demand Planning
Workforce Strategy
Workforce Management
Scheduling & Staffing
Performance Monitoring
Do your tools enable you to make effective decisions with your data?
- What are my expected patient volumes for next year, next month, next week?
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What are my staffing needs for next year, next month,
next week? - What are my contingent labor needs given variability of needs and staff turnover?
Do your tools enable you to make effective decisions with your data?
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What are my staffing needs given current versus alternate
models of care? - What’s the right mix of full-time, part-time, over-time, float and contingent staff?
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Should I have a float pool, and how should I
design it? -
What’s my turnover, and how does it vary by time
of year?
Do your tools enable you to make effective decisions with your data?
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How should I create staffing budgets to account for
variabilities in the business? -
Should I fill all my budgeted positions given fluctuations in
census and non-productive? -
How do I provide the right coverage if census
increases or decreases unexpectedly? -
What should be my recruitment plan given
variability of turnover?
Do your tools enable you to make effective decisions with your data?
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How do I implement a schedule that minimizes
understaffing and overstaffing? -
What’s the impact of all 12 hour versus 8 hour
shifts? Should I have a combination? -
What mix of shifts provide necessary patient care
and meet staff’s quality of life needs?
Do your tools enable you to make effective decisions with your data?
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What are my staffing needs for next year, next
month, next week? -
How well are managers executing to planned
strategies -
Am I staffing appropriately on a day to day month
to month basis -
Is my turnover exceeding historical
averages
Workforce optimization,
purpose-built for healthcare
Workforce optimization, purpose-built for healthcare
Optimé is SSI’s flagship workforce intelligence platform — developed over decades of work inside US hospitals and health systems. It helps hospitals and health networks address workforce inefficiency by aligning staffing levels with real patient demand — without replacing the systems already in place.
- Better staffing alignment with patient demand — at the hourly level
- Smarter float pool design and deployment
- Improved staff satisfaction and lower burnout-driven turnover
- Reduced reliance on costly contingent and overtime labor
- Lower total labor cost — without cutting care quality
Who we work with
Whether you run a health system, a staffing operation, a community hospital, or a growing health tech platform — Optimé was built for your environment.
Hospitals & Health Systems
Improve workforce efficiency and scheduling accuracy across inpatient units — without disrupting clinical operations or replacing existing systems.
Community & Regional Hospitals
Hospitals & Health Systems
Improve workforce efficiency and scheduling accuracy across inpatient units — without disrupting clinical operations or replacing existing systems.
Case Studies
A suite of Big Data solutions solving the hardest workforce challenges
ED Case Study
A major East Coast Academic medical center was challenged to better and more optimally deploy the overall workforce in the 60,000+ visit per annum…
ED Case Study
A major East Coast Academic medical center was challenged to better and more optimally deploy the overall workforce in the 60,000+ visit per annum…