Patient flow technology brings big positive outcomes for UAB Medicine

According to Healthcare IT News, high patient volume was creating significant challenges for University of Alabama Medicine, such as being on diversion 60 percent of the time; an average wait time for an inpatient bed up to 210 minutes; only 15 percent of discharges occurring before noon; more than 45 percent of transfer requests denied; midnight occupancy averaging 94 percent, and 6,000 clinic encounters a day.

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University of Alabama Medicine is a 1,157-bed academic medical center, manages 50,000 annual admissions and 300 daily emergency department visits. It has 57 operating room suites, with 130 surgeries per day. Click here to read more.

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