Hospital nurses are the backbone of the health care system. But these essential care givers routinely sacrifice their personal life to meet shift needs.

The transformational power of AI can help.

Today's scheduling systems present drop-down menu after drop-down menu, requiring multiple steps to complete tasks. While these systems try to accommodate personal schedules (lives), in reality they present static information on yet more screens for busy nurses and managers to do the work of finding coverage, making changes and avoiding collissions between personal and work schedules. This frustrating inefficiency leads to manual 'work-arounds' that result in operational bottlnecks. One example is the never-ending stream of SMS texts, office drop-ins, and emails by nurses to their manager asking to change their schedule, seeking help, or sharing updates on their personal situation. But scheduling system failures don't end there. Nurses routinely have to find their own coverage by asking their inner circle of colleagues to help.  When friends can't help, which happens often, the nurse manager has to redirect time away from mentoring teams and patient care to deal with it. So, why can't the power of real-time AI be be used to source coverage, manage communications, and handle the updating of schedules for these essential caregivers?

These scheduling system failures are why Catalyst by Wellstar, the innovation and venture arem of the Wellstar Health System of Georgia established vflok Inc., a Workforce AI startup leveraging the transformative power of generative AI and advanced Machine Learning to give frontline teams and Nurse Managers a 24/7 tool to increase schedule flexibility, eliminate redundant workflows, and lower costs .

The ‘V’ formation is one of nature’s most successful competitive strategies, enabling a flock of birds to travel amazingly long distances by helping each other optimize resources. Of all birds, the fastest and longest duration bird is the Swift, a master at maximizing resources to achieve its mission.

We leverage this principle in our technology design.

Our mission is to improve work-life balance for nurses and frontline teams, help Nurse Managers spend more time with patients and mentoring and less time on enterprise scheduling systems, and save Healthcare Systems millions of dollars by eliminating inefficient, often redundant, workflows.