ASHES 22nd Annual Conference & Healthcare Marketplace
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Optimizing Patient Throughput-Are the Benefits Still Following One Year Later
Track
:
October 1, 2007
Program Code:
040
Date:
Monday, October 1, 2007
Time:
10:15 AM to 11:30 AM
Location:
Majestic C
SPEAKER
:
Christopher Konen, Project Manager, IS,, Christiana Care Health System
Description
At the 2006 ASHES conference, Christiana Care demonstrated it had significant workflow efficiencies via process redesign enabled by patient flow technology. Thus, CCHS made drastic improvement in bed requests and bed turnover. One year later, CCHS patient flow improvement program has been live for 18 months. Learn how the program has overcome operational challenges and ensure realization and sustainability of its long-range patient throughput goals. Participants will review how EVS, bed management, and other key departments not only implemented, but also tweaked its technology, real-time dashboards and best
practices processes as their patient flow project grew and matured.