At Becker’s Hospital Review 6th Annual Meeting, Nanne M. Finis, RN, MS, vice president of consulting services with TeleTracking, and Jason Harber, vice president of product development with TeleTracking, envisioned the ways in which implementation of an intelligent care solution could impact inefficiency in healthcare.
“Twenty percent to 30 percent of spending in healthcare is spent on waste,” said Ms. Finis. Waste in healthcare ranges from unnecessary services and inflated prices to excessive administrative costs and inefficient care.
Waste in healthcare affects not only providers, but patients as well. “Patients can’t get to the right person at the right time,” said Mr. Harber. “We need to look at every clinical area of our hospitals.”
When it comes to struggling to connect patients with the right people, the emergency department is one of the key areas of focus. “When we take patients in, we need a central authority to put them in the right place,” said Mr. Harber. TeleTracking offers a comprehensive solution to do just that. The intelligent solution offers:
• Referral management
• Centralized patient placement
• Real-time census status and forecast
• Indications of patients ready to be moved
• Central decision making regarding blocked beds
• Discharge milestones
When hospital leadership can manage every activity occurring in an ED, patient flow becomes much smoother and wasted time and resources are significantly minimized.
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