Sudbury-based software company StaffStat was presented the Innovator of the Year Award at the 2016 This Is Long-Term Care conference in Toronto.
StaffStat pitched their shift-filling software in the Innovator’s Den, hosted by the Ontario Long-Term Care Association on Nov. 25.
The company was one of five finalists chosen to pitch their health-care solution to a crowd of more than 200 delegates from the long-term care sector. This group included six "dragons" who represented various corporations and organizations from across Ontario.
Finalists had three slides and three minutes to pitch their product. A Q&A session followed. StaffStat CEO Melanie Morin utilized those three minutes to explain the major pain-point every long-term care home across Ontario experiences, and the impact it has on them.
When organizations have unfilled shifts due to sick calls, vacation requests, etcetera, a scheduler must call down a staff list to fill the vacancies. StaffStat allows employers to post an available shift through their web-based solution to all, or a select group of employees.
Within seconds, the system automatically connects with employees using their preferred method of communication (telephone call, text message, email, or push notification).
Staff can then respond to the request by either accepting or denying the shift. Shifts can be posted, responded to, and filled in less than three minutes.
“Being named Innovator of the Year, with 34 per cent of the votes from the crowd, confirms how relevant our solution is to sectors experiencing the call out pain-point,” said Sheri Tomchick, founder of StaffStat.
Tomchick was named the 2016 northeastern Ontario Entrepreneur of the Year, presented by the Influential Women of Northern Ontario awards, an initiative of Northern Ontario Business.
