Hospital Patient Flow Solutions
Minimize delays and bottlenecks that lead to overcrowding, hinder quality patient care, and negatively impact the patient experience.
AiRISTA’s Sofia software platform with Patient Flow Manager offers an intuitive view of patient movement, status, and location. By pinpointing delays and congestion areas that disrupt efficient patient flow, healthcare facilities can optimize patient flow processes to enhance operational efficiency and patient satisfaction. This effective patient flow management system empowers healthcare professionals to streamline patient flow, improve patient outcomes, and reduce healthcare costs.
Capacity Management Is At The Heart of Patient Flow
Whether it’s inpatient beds reaching full capacity or a bottleneck causing overcrowding in the waiting room, healthcare facilities frequently encounter patient flow issues that impact not only patient satisfaction but also the quality of patient care.
Frequent bottlenecks and delays decrease hospital-wide efficiency and patient satisfaction, negatively affecting patient outcomes and resulting in poor HCAHPS scores.
To anticipate surges, effectively allocate resources, and avoid low patient satisfaction that could impact HCAHPS reimbursements, hospitals need a comprehensive view of the entire patient journey.
AiRISTA is a leader in real-time location system (RTLS) solutions specifically designed for optimizing patient flow. Our innovative Bluetooth® Low Energy (BLE) wrist tag technology allows your healthcare facility to track patient movement and monitor experiences that could harm satisfaction.
With Sofia, AiRISTA’s RTLS platform, healthcare providers gain a detailed view of the patient journey to minimize patient wait times and achieve your patient flow goals.
Capacity Management White Paper for Hospital Wide Patient Flow Improvement
The following benefits have been achieved by hospitals around the world, some of which directly link to improving bed capacity management:
- 70% efficiency improvement for porters through automated workflows enabled by RTLS
- Reduction in time required by nurses to support portering function from 40 min to 5 min per transaction
- Real Time visibility into waiting times, movement times, cleaning times, and more by functional area with ability to create alerting and automation rules
- Reduction in asset loss while improving utilization upwards of 25%
- Ensure compliance with asset management regulations
- Reduced congestion in waiting areas
Wearable BLE Tags For Patients and Personnel to Optimize Patient Flow
AiRISTA’s watch and pendant style BLE tags are comfortable, easy to wear and durable, allowing hospitals to track patients and personnel in real time.
Two-way messaging and alerts enable caregivers to send instant communications to the wearer — whether it’s a patient or staff member. That way, you can notify patients of a delay or availability, freeing them from the confines of the waiting room.
At the same time, hospitals can notify patients when they wander near prohibited areas, improving staff and patient safety alike.
Additionally, the AiRISTA patient tags provide real time location and interaction with the AiRISTA Staff tag. The Wi-Fi option provides greater flexibility and network redundancy.
AiRISTA’s Patient Flow Tags for Effective Patient Flow Management
AiRISTA offers a robust suite of low-cost BLE tags that are reusable, with batteries that can last for years. Here are a few of our innovative wearable patient and personnel tags:
Advanced Wrist Personnel (W4)
The Advanced Wrist Personnel tag offers vibration alerting and two-colored LEDs to signal events to the patient.
Tamper Resistant BLE Wrist Personnel (W7)
AiRISTA’s W7 BLE wrist tag integrates tamper detection functionality and cut-off alerting to improve staff and patient safety.
Indoor-Outdoor Wrist Personnel (W9)
The W9 Indoor-Outdoor wrist tag enables real-time location tracking both in and outside of the healthcare facility.
Advanced Display Personnel (B4n)
The B4n badge tag can generate alerts in response to dangerous or duress events to improve staff safety.
A1 BLE wrist strap/fob
The A1 BLE tag is a low cost patient tag with optional accelerometer for motion sensing.
A7 BLE reusable wrist strap
The A7 low cost wrist tag is the entry level patient tag which is hygienic and reusable.
Sofia – AiRISTA’s RTLS Hospital Patient Flow Solution
Sofia is AiRISTA’s comprehensive patient flow management solution for healthcare organizations. Delivered on-premises or from the cloud, sofia provides real-time insights into patient volume and throughput, enhancing hospital-wide patient flow and improving patient satisfaction across the entire healthcare facility. By leveraging sofia and AiRISTA’s low-cost BLE tags, healthcare providers can:
- Quickly identify and address bottlenecks, patient dwell times, and discharge issues to streamline patient flow.
- Send timely notifications to patients regarding availability, ensuring a smooth patient journey.
- Seamlessly integrate with other hospital systems, such as EHRs, to optimize patient data management and care coordination.
- Automate alerts for excessive patient wait times or bottlenecks, improving patient outcomes and hospital efficiency.
- Notify waiting patients promptly when it’s their turn, reducing patient wait times and enhancing patient experience.
- Track and alert patients when they enter restricted areas, ensuring patient safety and compliance.
With this comprehensive view of patient movement and status, hospital staff can anticipate surges in patient volumes, effectively allocate resources, and redeploy people and medical equipment to maintain efficient patient flow and improve overall healthcare delivery.
Minimize Delays During Patient Transfer or Discharge
A patient wants to check out of the hospital after three days staying in inpatient beds. Everything is signed off and the nurse gives the all clear, but they can’t find a wheelchair for the patient.
The longer the wait time, the longer the hospital has to wait until they can fill the bed again. Meanwhile, the patient becomes dissatisfied.
Integrating AiRISTA’s RTLS tags and sofia software with your existing healthcare system enables proactive preparation for patient transfer, ensuring everything is in place once they’re cleared for discharge.
AiRISTA – RTLS Experts in Hospital Patient Flow Management
With over a decade of industry experience, AiRISTA is the leading provider of RTLS tracking software and equipment. We have the tools, tags and expertise necessary to help your healthcare facility achieve its patient flow goals.
DEPLOYMENT DETAILS
- Management Platform: AiRISTA sofia
- Infrastructure: Existing Cisco WiFi infrastructure
- Asset RTLS Tags: AiRISTA W4 WiFi/BLE Tag, A1 BLE pendent or wrist tag, A7 BLE pendant or wrist tag, B4n WiFi/BLE Staff Tag
- Integrations: HL-7
- Deployment time: Days, not weeks.
Start Improving Patient Outcomes and Operational Efficiency
From increasing patient throughput and efficiency to enhancing care and outcomes, AiRISTA’s Hospital Flow Solution can help your hospital do it all. Request a demo today.