This article originally appeared on BMJ Blogs | Richard Smith
The British public is used to operations being cancelled and to whole hospitals being unable to admit more patients because no beds are available. A recent television programme showed how a large team was assembled over weeks at St Mary’s Hospital London to perform a particularly complex operation only for the operation to be cancelled at the last minute because of the lack of an intensive care bed.
“Senior nurses spend too much o…
This article first appeared on AHA.org | Genevieve Diesing
As hospital and health system leaders increasingly face natural disasters and emergency events, they have found value in using real-time throughput technology to manage patient flow, and to give them bird’s-eye views of operational logistics both on and off their campuses. When used in conjunction with their electronic medical record software, these tools can help hospital leaders respond nimbly to unprecedented emergencies.
Su…
This article first appeared on WDTN.com | Ethan Fitzgerald
KETTERING, Ohio (WDTN) - KETTERING, Ohio (WDTN) - Kettering Health Network started construction on their 17,000 square-foot facility in August.
The command center looks like something from NASA.
When 2 NEWS visited the facility in August, it was a hollow shell of what it is now.
"Once we identified that this would be the place for our future network command center for operations, the build was able to happen quickly," said Joh…
PITTSBURGH – December 4, 2018 – TeleTracking, a progressive voice that is leading the movement to transform healthcare with operational command centers designed to improve patient care, is providing the technology platform powering Broward Health’s new Patient Logistics Center. The goal of the Patient Logistics Center is to streamline operations, placing patients at the most appropriate level of care in the least amount of time—subsequently freeing up resources and staff to care for patients.
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Southend is first hospital in mid and south Essex to introduce system giving live information on bed availability.
This article is published in full at Basildon-Today | Read it now.
SOUTHEND Hospital is the first hospital across mid and south Essex to introduce a new system to give live information on the availability of beds.
Called TeleTracking, it gives centralised, real-time bed status information to doctors and nurses.
The hospital’s managing director, Yvonne Blücher, said a live up…
at the Pittsburgh Technology Council's Tech 50 Awards
The results are in! Last night, TeleTracking was honored to receive the Innovator of the Year: Health IT at the Pittsburgh Technology Council’s Tech 50 Awards. We were also honored to be a finalist in the Culture Leader of the Year category. Every year the Tech 50 honors the great companies of the Pittsburgh region’s technology community that are making an impact with their ideas and innovation—and it is the second time in three years that T…
Patients in Southend University Hospital this month will benefit from new technology to make sure they are in the right place at the right time. The new system, called TeleTracking, is an innovative electronic system that improves the flow of patients through hospital by giving centralised, real-time bed status information to doctors and nurses.
This article was originally published at Southend.NHS.UK | Read the full article
Southend Hospital is the first of the mid and south Essex hospita…
Nursing Leaders Recognized for their Compassion and Commitment to the Dynamic Process of Patient Flow
October 9, 2018 • Pittsburgh, PA―The DAISY Foundation, an organization dedicated to recognizing the compassion and skill nurses bring to patients and families every day, along with industry partner TeleTracking, announced the recipients of the Second Annual DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses in Patient Flow. The team award went to the nursing professionals from Children’s National Health Syst…
VCU Health System Streamlines Communications for Patient Discharges with TeleTracking Solutions
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Home to the only comprehensive academic medical center in its region and the sole Level I trauma center for adult, pediatric and burn patients in Richmond, Virginia, VCU Health was regularly at or over capacity for patient admissions. As a result, the health system was routinely on diversion and faced challenges in discharging patients timely and e…
TeleTracking RTLS Patient Tracking at NHS Southend Hospital
NEW gadgets similar to Fitbits are being introduced at Southend Hospital to combat long A&E waits, bed blocking and poor patient transfers between departments.
Read the full article at Echo News
The introduction of the hi-tech scheme comes after a report highlighted that “extreme pressure” had prompted a rise in the number of people waiting more than four hours to be seen in A&E.
In an effort to combat the issues, includ…