bed management
Timely, cost-effective care depends on moving patients smoothly through the treatment process. Ineffective bed management can slow patient flow to a crawl, delaying admissions, transfers and discharges. AgileTrac Bed Manager from GE Healthcare helps you break this bottleneck by automating bed management - so you can speed patient admissions and discharges, maximize use of hospital resources, shorten length of stay, and optimize revenue opportunities
Improve flow, automatically
AgileTrac Bed Manager uses Real-time Location System (RTLS) technology to track patients, staff and equipment in real time. It automates all key bed management processes, including:- Discharge scheduling and tracking
- Bed request tracking and management
- Transport requests
- Environmental services requests
- Integration with other hospital IT systems
Find the right room, instantly
Aligning patient needs to the right facility resources - quickly -- is key to effective patient flow. AgileTrac Bed Manager automatically finds the appropriate bed for the patient's needs. The bedboard view gives users at-a-glance understanding of bed and room type, occupancy status and specific patient attributes. Automatic notifications and status monitoring help you get patients where they need to go - faster. In addition, the system gives you the flexibility to:- Customize information via bedboard, graphical map, tabular list and detail views.
- Choose full-screen views or display multiple views at once
- Access alerts and notifications via visual view, pager and e-mail.
- Manage beds for single- or multiple-facility hospitals
IVR flexibility
In addition to the RTLS configuration, AgileTrac Bed Management is available using interactive voice response (IVR) technology. The system will integrate easily with your existing telephone network. Staff members can call into the system to receive updates on bed status. And as a bed reaches key points in the utilization cycle, the appropriate staff member/department is automatically paged - such as housekeeping being notified when a patient is discharged. The IVR configuration is a cost-friendly alternative that delivers high payoffs in efficiency at a lower infrastructure investment.Bed and business management
By combining technology with workflow improvements, the AgileTrac approach to bed management will help you improve bed turnover rates by making sustainable changes to hospital processes. AgileTrac data, metrics, and reports can help you uncover opportunities for improvement and guide process changes to improve care efficiency and business outcomes.To learn more about AgileTrac contact us here or email us at agiletrac@ge.com.