patient flow
Optimizing patient flow is critical to ensuring safe, efficient care. AgileTrac Patient Flow from GE Healthcare can help you make the best use of your organization's capacity and resources in the delivery of care. By giving you the tools and information to actively manage patient flow in real time, AgileTrac can help you prevent bottlenecks that lead to delays, diversions, dissatisfied patients and staff, and lost revenue.
Direct the flow of care
AgileTrac Patient Flow enables your staff to direct the flow of care - rather than react to problems after the fact. Using Real-time Location System (RTLS) technology, the system gathers input on the movement of patients and assets through the facility. A sophisticated workflow engine processes this real-time data and makes it actionable through a Web-based portal that alerts staff to potential slow-downs. Managers know at a glance what steps to take to keep care flowing in order to:- Decrease Emergency Department wait times and average length of stay
- Improve Admission and Discharge processes
- Streamline patient movement through care areas, such as Peri-Op
Automate the everyday
Managing patient flow involves hundreds of routine tasks that need to be monitored and coordinated across the enterprise. AgileTrac makes sure that nothing falls between the cracks by automating key patient flow functions including:- Discharge scheduling and tracking
- Bed request tracking and management
- Transport requests
- Environmental services requests
- Integration with other hospital IT systems
Put equipment to work
When essential medical equipment is not at hand, care processes get derailed and patient safety is jeopardized. With AgileTrac Patient Flow, your staff can quickly find the resources they need for patient care. With RTLS tags on mobile assets, like wheelchairs and IV pumps, their location and status can be checked from any web-enabled device. This helps ensure that the right equipment - clean and in working order - is in the right place at the right time.Fine-tune your processes
By providing data and metrics on your current patient flow processes, AgileTrac can help you uncover opportunities for improvement. Examining AgileTrac metrics, trend data, and reports can give you insights into care delivery at your institution that may otherwise go unnoticed. This information can help guide process changes - both large and small - that help you free up capacity and control costs by:- Accelerating the admission process
- Reducing length of stay
- Correcting capacity-demand imbalances
- Fine tuning patient scheduling
- Improving equipment utilization