Patient Management Software

Patient Tracking Software That Predicts Length of Stay Bottlenecks Before They Occur

A patient's length of stay depends on effective patient tracking software and orchestration of their resource plan of care. Length of stay, in turn, has a direct bearing on capacity management and, ultimately, hospital costs and revenues.

StatCom's patient management software minimizes delays associated with moving patients from admission through diagnostics, treatment, nursing units, and finally to discharge. In the department-centric world of hospital management, however, one department's needs are not necessarily compatible with another department's priorities.

Patient stay management is commonly impacted by the following patient tracking gaps:

• Balancing admissions with discharges
• Tracking day of discharge timeframes according to a patient's diagnosis
• Coordinating service delivery according to a defined patient itinerary
• Improving capacity and bed turns
• Tracking observation patients
• Reducing clinical and medical necessity denials

Many of the delays in patient flow occur because the availability and prioritized usage of resources, including staff, hospital technology, equipment, and supplies, is not coordinated within existing patient scheduling software. These resources may in fact be available. They just may not be readily visible or available when the patient needs them.

Ineffective resource coordination and patient management software have a significant impact not only on patient tracking, flow and patient satisfaction, but also on critical aspects of the business operations. This includes such things as length of stay, capacity management, and revenue generation.

StatCom's patient tracking software streamlines patient care processes by coordinating crucial events from admission to discharge. It gives everyone the real-time data and task coordination tools required to increase hospital capacity.

• StatCom provides a patient itinerary for each patient, tracking their service and procedure progress, from admission to discharge.
• Facilitates day of discharge tasks to balance admission volume with discharges.
• Provides synchronized, diagnostic and service queues, which allows all departments to see what is next for the patient, and whether the patient is on or off the unit.
• Tracks observation patients and times.
• Allows for patient tracking of Core Measure patients and hospital performance on key performance indicators.
• StatCom's patient management software provides real-time dashboards for up-to-the-minute census and feedback on patient flow process performance, including LOS, bed turns, and diagnostic turnarounds.