Imagine that you had a way to predict accurate start, completion and wait times for every patient's procedure in your hospital. Imagine that you had a system that would automatically repair your schedule in response to inevitable change. Change you deal with all day long – any minute, every day.
A Dynamic Patient Itinerary:
- Provides time-sensitive "live" patient status
- Predicts accurate, up to-the-minute procedure start times
- Delivers interactive access anywhere to all caregivers
A Dynamic Patient Itinerary helps you navigate daily change in the most efficient, stress-free way possible. You'll know exactly what is happening at a glance because the information you need arrives dynamically – automatically optimizing patient flow through your hospital.
Why does a Dynamic Patient Itinerary make a difference?
Wait time adversely impacts both patients and caregivers.
Delays, bottlenecks and backlogs are symptoms of a serious problem with patient throughput which creates a stressful healthcare environment. All of which impact patient safety, satisfaction and timeliness of quality care.
Other tools designed to help improve a busy hospital's performance, efficiency and operations are often fragmented, siloed, and inadequate to the demands of dynamic environments. None properly address the underlying issues which plague optimal staff performance and the timeliness of quality patient care, which are critical components of patient flow optimization. And, simply working harder cannot solve these problems.
Patient flow problems include:
- Handoff Errors
- Inadequate Communication
- Slow Turn Around Times
- Inadequate Measurement Tools
Patient Flow has been defined as improving throughput and capacity to allow hospitals to safely provide the optimal level of care for patients. In today’s healthcare reform era and challenging economic environment, improving hospital operational performance while improving safety and patient outcomes is critical to healthcare leadership.
Optimized Patient Flow = Optimal Patient Care. High-quality, optimal care is delivered when every patient is in the right place, with the right information, and at the right time.
