Kahuna Workforce Solutions and Skillcentrix have formed a strategic alliance that seeks to enhance the integrity of frontline healthcare skills data within the Workday platform. The alliance focuses on regulated skills, starting with nursing, where compliance, skills, and patient safety are all driven by validated skills rather than estimates or self-reported data.
As healthcare organizations increasingly adopt skills-based workforce models with Workday, they often face the challenge of skills data that is inferred, out of date, or not aligned with the skills required for the job. In frontline positions that are regulated by licensure, certification, and scope of practice, these challenges can create operational or compliance risk.
The partnership helps to close this gap. Skillcentrix helps healthcare organizations establish role-specific competencies, basing them on clinical and regulatory models, and distinguishing, for instance, between the competencies of an ICU nurse and a medical-surgical nurse, moving beyond job role alone. Kahuna then helps to embed this information into day-to-day operations, validating skills in real-time, again through frontline workers. The outcome is a constantly updated and auditable data set, delivered into Workday in real-time.
The validated skills information helps to enhance Workday Skills Cloud, enabling informed decisions for health systems on staffing, workforce, learning, and internal labor mobility, rather than relying on assumptions.
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“In healthcare, skills are not abstract attributes. They are safety-critical requirements tied to real patients, real regulations, and real risk,” said Josh Barrow, CEO of Skillcentrix. “Our role is to help organizations clearly define what ‘qualified’ specifically means for regulated frontline roles like nursing. By partnering with Kahuna, those definitions don’t stay theoretical. They are continuously validated in the field and delivered into Workday so trusted data leaders can act on them.”
Jai Shah, CEO of Kahuna Workforce Solutions, emphasized the operational importance of credible data. “Healthcare organizations cannot afford to make talent decisions based on incomplete or inferred skills data,” he said. “Kahuna captures and validates skills where the work actually happens. Together with Skillcentrix, we provide Workday customers with a credible, operationally validated skills foundation for frontline and clinical roles supporting readiness, compliance, and safe patient care.”
While initially focused on healthcare, the companies note that the model extends to other regulated industries—including energy, manufacturing, and transportation—where workforce readiness and compliance hinge on demonstrable, up-to-date capabilities.
