StatCom Announces Hospital-Wide Patient Flow Logistics and Tracking Solution

StatCom Announces Hospital-Wide Patient Flow Logistics and Tracking Solution

Industry breakthrough solution significantly improves patient throughput and capacity management across hospital and healthcare systems.

ATLANTA, GA -- February 26, 2007 - StatCom announced today the launch of its patient flow logistics and tracking software developed to improve patient throughput and capacity management hospital wide. StatCom enables hospitals to anticipate demand and manage bottlenecks more effectively. Operational visibility increases, communication is enhanced, and patient care hand-offs are turned into handshakes.

"The right technology solution can act as a leverage point for hospitals that are struggling to solve capacity and utilization challenges. The solution must go beyond simply providing visibility," said Eric Morgan, president and CEO of StatCom . "It must provide real-time tools to effectively manage the flow of patients through the hospital. StatCom's hospital-wide patient flow logistics and tracking system does just that."

StatCom coordinates patients and resources from admission through discharge, including bed management, environmental services, transportation, patient LOS management, OR patient flow, ED patient flow, and discharge coordination. It informs physicians, staff, and family as to the location and status of the patient throughout the care progression, and it provides real-time tools to effectively manage that flow within and between departments.

"StatCom has given us the ability to know where a patient is at all times in our procedure center so that we are able to track patient progress from admission to discharge. We are excited to see StatCom extend their technology to the entire enterprise," said Mary Kay Thalken, Clinical Support Services Executive at Alegent Health's Bergan Mercy Medical Center. "StatCom has enabled us to improve team performance and patient, physician, and employee satisfaction. I see them as a healthcare innovator, tackling real issues with real solutions."

Vi Shaffer, Research Vice President at Gartner, Inc., stated: "Healthcare organizations need much better ways of managing and optimizing facility capacity and setting productivity, and that means adopting sophisticated logistics and tracking techniques just as other industries do. But these need to be adapted to the unique complexities of patient flow. Delivering care processes more efficiently and reliably is unquestionably critical to better and safer patient care and certainly improves patient satisfaction."

A unique healthcare IT solution, StatCom creates a common workflow across the healthcare system by capturing patient flow and tracking data from a variety of sources and input devices, and it facilitates cross vertical handoffs. The resulting hospital-wide benefits include::

  • Real-time, system-wide view of bed demand, capacity, and resource utilization
  • Increased ED and OR throughput
  • Up-to-the-minute operational process information including census by hospital and unit
  • The functionality to prioritize and proactively manage length of stay progression and day of discharge tasks
  • Improved communication and hand-offs across vertical silos, consistent with a system aim focus

StatCom is currently available for hospital-wide implementation. For more information call 800-930-0870 or email: info@statcom.com. Visit StatCom at booth #1911 at HIMSS in New Orleans, February 26 - March 1

 

About StatCom

StatCom's patient flow logistics and tracking software was developed to improve hospital-wide communications, patient throughput and capacity management. This unique healthcare IT solution provides an immediate and comprehensive view of the entire patient flow process with real-time tools to manage that flow within and between departments. Operational visibility increases, communication is enhanced, and patient care hand-offs are turned into handshakes. As a result, financial performance is maximized while greatly enhancing the patient experience. A number of leading and innovative hospitals in the U.S. are using StatCom to address their patient flow challenges. StatCom is a subsidiary of Jackson Healthcare Solutions, a group of companies focused on providing the healthcare industry with innovative people resources and IT solutions. For more information contact us at 800.930.0870 or at info@statcom.com