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Business Wire
07-05-2025
- Business
- Business Wire
Tyler Technologies to Provide Automated Income and Employment Verifications With The Work Number® From Equifax®
PLANO, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Tyler Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: TYL) has announced its integration with The Work Number® from Equifax® to allow instant, automated income and employment verifications through Tyler's Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software. 'Every day, employees rely upon their employers to provide timely and accurate verifications of employment and income to help support important moments in their lives, like applying for a loan or social service benefits. These requests can lead to more paperwork and HR administrative burdens for employers,' said Dane Womble, president of Tyler's Public Administration Group. 'Our work with Equifax reinforces Tyler's commitment to providing innovative technology that empowers government organizations to support employees with better security, greater efficiency, and more confidence.' The Work Number from Equifax works directly with Tyler's ERP software, including Enterprise ERP, ERP Pro, School ERP Pro, and New World ERP. It adds greater efficiency and security to the manual, critical employment and income verification process and helps streamline the experience for employees, employers, and verifiers. Automated verifications bring several benefits to public sector organizations, including: Easier employee experience. When employees apply for a loan or social service benefit, they typically won't have to hassle with stacks of pay stubs or be slowed down by phone calls or emails to verify their information. More timely decision-making. The verifier – such as a lender or social service agency – uses the data from The Work Number to often make quicker, more informed decisions. Greater protection. Employee data is encrypted at rest and in transit and only shared upon request from a credentialed verifier with a legally required permissible purpose, which helps reduce risk over manual HR verifications. Increased efficiency. When HR professionals are freed up from providing manual employment verifications, they have more time for strategic work in support of their organizational mission. 24/7 availability. Automated verifications are available 24/7 to assist with weekend or after-hour needs. 'As a provider of numerous solutions to social service, public safety, and educational organizations, Equifax understands the unique challenges of the public sector,' said Jeff Wagner, vice president of Business Development, Equifax Workforce Solutions. 'Through this new integration with Tyler Technologies, we're able to bring the benefits of The Work Number to support even more government employees as they pursue important life events.' The integration with Tyler's ERP solutions empowers HR teams by providing automated income and employment verifications versus manually responding to inquiries from lenders, social service agencies, or other verifiers. By providing verifiers with faster, more reliable access to employment and income data, it can help improve employees' access to credit, housing, and government benefits. About Tyler Technologies, Inc. Tyler Technologies (NYSE: TYL) provides integrated software and technology services to the public sector. Tyler's end-to-end solutions empower local, state, and federal government entities to operate efficiently and transparently with residents and each other. By connecting data and processes across disparate systems, Tyler's solutions transform how clients turn actionable insights into opportunities and solutions for their communities. Tyler has more than 45,000 successful installations across nearly 13,000 locations, with clients in all 50 states, Canada, the Caribbean, Australia, and other international locations. Tyler has been recognized numerous times for growth and innovation, including Government Technology's GovTech 100 list. More information about Tyler Technologies, an S&P 500 company headquartered in Plano, Texas, can be found at #TYL_General
CBS News
22-04-2025
- Health
- CBS News
How accurate are hospital TV shows like "The Pitt"?
Across several networks and streaming channels, you'll often find a dramatic depiction of life in a hospital. Usually, they take place in the emergency department, where stress and chaos can boil over. We wanted to know: How accurate are hospital TV shows? What elements do they get right? Good Question. Jeff Wagner talked with the professionals whose daily grind can make for good television. The waiting area beyond the entrance doors and a quiet room after that are what most patients see on an emergency department visit. But what grabs attention on TV are the intense, and at times incomprehensible, moments that make for an entertaining story. The script includes paramedics bursting through a door with a patient on a gurney fighting for their life, waiting rooms overflowing with people and love triangles between staff for a romance element. "I mean, I watched 'Grey's Anatomy' and now I know that's incredibly not realistic," joked Dr. Erin Karl. She's a staff physician in Hennepin Healthcare's emergency department. "There are a few (shows) that the medicine kind of aligns with things that we do in real life," said Christian Erickson, a registered nurse who works in the same department. What elements do these hospital TV shows often portray accurately? Karl said it's the teamwork and camaraderie all the staff share, especially in stressful moments. "Working very closely with everyone from not just the physicians and the nurses but the pharmacists to even like the environment service personnel who like clean our rooms every single day," she said. The medical jargon that doctors shout when a patient needs a lifesaving treatment is accurate, said Karl, even if it sounds like another language to those not in the medical field. Is the emergency department as chaotic as the shows often portray? Yes, said Karl. We interviewed her in the stabilization room. That's where the most critically injured and sick patients are taken, often after an ambulance ride. It was empty during the interview, but at times there could be up to four patients in there getting treatment. "Most of the time you have a critical case and then you're going to help a patient with abdominal pain that's fairly stable, and you're going to meet a patient with wrist pain and then they're fairly stable, and then you run a cardiac arrest," she said. "Versus in the shows when it's like critical, critical, critical." Erickson experiences the busy days as well, highlighting how dozens of their beds will be taken up with people they refer to as "boarders," meaning patients who would have been admitted to the hospital if there was a bed available but instead must stay in the ED. "And we're kind of adding those people on top of the patients that are presenting to the ER," he said. Karl added that there are situations where patients are tended to in hallways if space is limited. "We're caring for everybody the best that we can in this American health care system that's been set up kind of for us to fail," she said. As for what the shows often get wrong, both mentioned medical staff doing jobs or tasks that are usually meant for someone else. "A lot of older shows will show like doctors doing their patient's imaging scans, like their CTs and MRIs, which we have people who that's what they do for a living," said Erickson. If there's one show that best portrays the challenges of working in an emergency department, both quickly said it's "The Pitt" on the streaming platform Max. The show highlights a single, pressure-packed day in an ED, along with flashbacks to the immediate days of the COVID-19 pandemic in spring 2020. Several staff at Hennepin Healthcare said that the show is so realistic that some health care workers are too traumatized to even watch it. They'd rather detach from the hectic environment and emotions that come with it than relive it on TV. "But ('The Pitt') also captured a lot of other themes in health care that I think are really important right now for the public," said Erickson. "The Pitt" highlights the hospital's lack of beds, overcrowding and low staffing to manage it. Those problems are happening in real life nationwide. Giving viewers an inside perspective on the dilemma can be eye-opening, said Karl. "If you're emotional watching the show for one hour at a time, imagine how tiring and emotional it can be working in emergency medicine in America right now and that's our life every single day," she said, adding that she hopes viewers will give health care workers some grace. "We're people, too, and we're doing our best to take care of patients," said Erickson. Other hospital shows praised for their accuracy include "Scrubs" and "Chicago Med." Meanwhile, "Grey's Anatomy" and "House" fall on the other side of the accuracy spectrum.
