Healthcare organizations have more workforce data than ever before. What they’ve lacked is the intelligence to act on it.
Atalan exists to change that.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, best friends Tiffany Chan and Sisi Hu found themselves working on different sides of the same crisis.
Sisi had received a U.S. National Science Foundation research grant to study the impact of COVID-19 on healthcare workers. Tiffany was helping lead a citywide effort to connect volunteers and critical resources with people impacted by the pandemic. Every day, they heard stories from clinicians facing extraordinary stress, exhaustion, and uncertainty.
As they spoke with healthcare leaders across the country, one theme emerged again and again: healthcare organizations were struggling to support their workforce before problems became crises.
The conversations were impossible to ignore.
Health system leaders described decades-long workforce challenges that had been intensified by the pandemic. Burnout, turnover, staffing shortages, and workforce instability were affecting clinicians, patients, and organizations alike. Yet, leaders lacked the visibility needed to understand where risks were emerging and how to intervene before valuable clinicians left.
Tiffany and Sisi believed there had to be a better way. They were on a mission to figure it out.
From the beginning, their mission was simple: help healthcare organizations better understand, support, and retain the people who make patient care possible.
What started as research quickly evolved into something larger. Through hundreds of conversations with healthcare executives, physician leaders, nurse leaders, and frontline clinicians, they recognized a critical gap that went far beyond the pandemic.
Health systems had no shortage of data. What they lacked was actionable intelligence.
Workforce information existed across EHRs, HR systems, scheduling platforms, staffing systems, and operational reports. But leaders often struggled to connect those insights, identify emerging risks, and understand which actions would have the greatest impact.
Atalan was built to solve that problem.
Today, Atalan is the leading Clinician Retention Intelligence (CRI) platform.
Using workforce intelligence and objective operational data that health systems already collect, Atalan helps leaders identify emerging retention risks up to 12 months in advance. The platform helps organizations understand where workforce challenges exist, what operational factors are driving them, and which actions are most likely to improve outcomes.
Rather than relying solely on surveys, turnover reports, or other lagging indicators, Atalan helps leaders proactively strengthen workforce stability before disruptions affect patient care.
The result is a more stable workforce, protected clinical capacity, stronger patient experience, and improved financial performance.
