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<\/span><\/div><\/div>If there\u2019s one thing the coronavirus pandemic taught us, it\u2019s that hospital capacity is a precious commodity. Although COVID-19 behaved like a mild cold for some people, for others, it was a vicious onslaught that overwhelmed their systems, and in turn, those seriously ill patients overwhelmed many hospital systems.<\/p>\n
The idea behind a hospital command center isn\u2019t to solve pandemics, but it does create visibility into the operations of the hospital. Armed with that visibility, hospital staff have the intel they need to make crucial decisions and unlock much-needed capacity.<\/p>\n
Although a hospital that feels overburdened with patients may consider expanding its campus or building a new location, those options require lots of resources and can take years before the extra capacity is ready for use. A hospital command center allows hospitals to analyze their operation from a high level, eliminate waste, identify choke-points for high-demand resources, and respond faster to major incidents, such as a rapid influx of patients from a natural disaster.<\/p>\n<\/div>
A Hospital Command Center Is A Technological Nexus<\/h2><\/div>Because the principle of a hospital command center is to gain visibility into the hospital as a whole, it must become the central terminal for the various health systems deployed across the organization. Collecting the data feeds from every system in one place and displaying it on large format monitors allows staff to quickly access the \u201chealth\u201d of the organization at any given moment.<\/p>\n
Real-time intelligence is just the beginning of what a command center offers. It also simplifies reporting and informed decision-making around clinical outcomes \u2014 mission control for healthcare professionals. Ultimately, the value of the command center increases over time. By storing the data and analyzing it manually or with machine learning, you can identify patterns and anomalies.<\/p>\n
The purpose is not to revoke decision-making power from the specialist and teams providing patient care, but to examine everything from a 30,000 ft level and spot the trends that individual contributors miss, such as underutilized bed capacity or untimely patient transfer delays from the operating room. These all impact patient safety but can be missed without the aggregation and presentation of data from a multitude of experiences.<\/p>\n
<\/span><\/div>If there\u2019s one thing the coronavirus pandemic taught us, it\u2019s that hospital capacity is a precious commodity. Although COVID-19 behaved like a mild cold for some people, for others, it was a vicious onslaught that overwhelmed their systems, and in turn, those seriously ill patients overwhelmed many hospital systems.<\/p>\n
The idea behind a hospital command center isn\u2019t to solve pandemics, but it does create visibility into the operations of the hospital. Armed with that visibility, hospital staff have the intel they need to make crucial decisions and unlock much-needed capacity.<\/p>\n
Although a hospital that feels overburdened with patients may consider expanding its campus or building a new location, those options require lots of resources and can take years before the extra capacity is ready for use. A hospital command center allows hospitals to analyze their operation from a high level, eliminate waste, identify choke-points for high-demand resources, and respond faster to major incidents, such as a rapid influx of patients from a natural disaster.<\/p>\n<\/div>
A Hospital Command Center Is A Technological Nexus<\/h2><\/div>Because the principle of a hospital command center is to gain visibility into the hospital as a whole, it must become the central terminal for the various health systems deployed across the organization. Collecting the data feeds from every system in one place and displaying it on large format monitors allows staff to quickly access the \u201chealth\u201d of the organization at any given moment.<\/p>\n
Real-time intelligence is just the beginning of what a command center offers. It also simplifies reporting and informed decision-making around clinical outcomes \u2014 mission control for healthcare professionals. Ultimately, the value of the command center increases over time. By storing the data and analyzing it manually or with machine learning, you can identify patterns and anomalies.<\/p>\n
The purpose is not to revoke decision-making power from the specialist and teams providing patient care, but to examine everything from a 30,000 ft level and spot the trends that individual contributors miss, such as underutilized bed capacity or untimely patient transfer delays from the operating room. These all impact patient safety but can be missed without the aggregation and presentation of data from a multitude of experiences.<\/p>\n
Because the principle of a hospital command center is to gain visibility into the hospital as a whole, it must become the central terminal for the various health systems deployed across the organization. Collecting the data feeds from every system in one place and displaying it on large format monitors allows staff to quickly access the \u201chealth\u201d of the organization at any given moment.<\/p>\n
Real-time intelligence is just the beginning of what a command center offers. It also simplifies reporting and informed decision-making around clinical outcomes \u2014 mission control for healthcare professionals. Ultimately, the value of the command center increases over time. By storing the data and analyzing it manually or with machine learning, you can identify patterns and anomalies.<\/p>\n
The purpose is not to revoke decision-making power from the specialist and teams providing patient care, but to examine everything from a 30,000 ft level and spot the trends that individual contributors miss, such as underutilized bed capacity or untimely patient transfer delays from the operating room. These all impact patient safety but can be missed without the aggregation and presentation of data from a multitude of experiences.<\/p>\n
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