News & Events
December 16, 2009
BAYLOR HEALTH CARE SYSTEM SELECTS TELETRACKING AS PATIENT FLOW PROVIDER
Enterprise-wide patient flow platform, market leadership critical factors
PITTSBURGH, PA, Dec. 16, 2009 _____ -- TeleTracking Technologies today announced a multi-year agreement with Dallas-based Baylor Health Care System to license its Capacity Management Suite™ powered by TeleTracking XT™ across the 14-hospital system. The agreement also includes a consulting engagement with TeleTracking’s patient flow process redesign division, Avanti Patient Flow Services.
After a comprehensive evaluation process, the Baylor system chose TeleTracking’s patient flow solutions.
Moving patients efficiently through the healthcare delivery process involves multiple hospital constituents and presents a major communication challenge. The patient flow re-design initiatives that Baylor will implement are based on time-tested principles successfully used at hundreds of TeleTracking hospital clients throughout the U.S., according to Lisa Romano, RN, MSN and CNO of TeleTracking. “The approach being adopted by Baylor Health Care System will lead to efficient and time effective decisions for patient placement.
Complex, multi-facility healthcare enterprises want enterprise visibility and communication to support functions such as the transfer requests of their referral providers, who demand their patients get the timely, specialized care they need.” Ms. Romano is also Managing Director of their Avanti Patient Flow Services division.
About TeleTracking
TeleTracking Technologies is the world-leading producer of automated patient flow solutions and services helping relieve hospital overcrowding and improve throughput throughout the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. The privately-held, Pittsburgh-based firm has over 1750 patient flow solutionsinstalled and working in more than 800 of the best-known hospitals and health systems in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. TeleTracking was first to recognize patient flow as a “continuum of actions and activities involving many people.” It launched the automated patient flow industry in 1991 with BedTracking®, the first automated bed turnover solution and has since introduced a number of industry-standard firsts to it’s patient flow portfolio, including the electronic bedboard®, healthcare’s first digitized way to manage patient placement and hospital census. TeleTracking interests also include it’s consulting division, Avanti Patient Flow Services, and its wholly owned subsidiary, RadarFind, a real-time location system provider.
About Baylor Health Care System
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Health Care System exists to serve all people through exemplary health care, education, research and community service. Baylor Health Care System, a faith-based, not-for-profit health care provider based in North Texas, is a growing network of hospitals, primary care and specialty care centers, rehabilitation clinics, senior health centers, and affiliated ambulatory surgery centers.
Baylor Health Care System also provides cohesive and coordinated research efforts through the Baylor Research Institute. Baylor Health Care System offers patients convenient access to health care in the Baylor tradition of compassion and healing. An employer of more than 20,000 people, Baylor Health Care System ranks as one of the largest private-sector employers in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. The system’s vision is to be trusted as the best place to give and receive safe, quality, compassionate health care.
Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas serves as Baylor Health Care System’s flagship hospital. The medical center is recognized as a major center for patient care, teaching and medical research throughout the Southwest. For the 17th consecutive year, U.S. News & World Report’s “America’s Best Hospitals” guide has ranked Baylor Dallas among the nation’s top hospitals in several medical specialties.
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