Expediter Tiles give real time situational awareness and enable immediate action to expedite patient-specific activity such as delayed labs, imaging or consults.
There are several Expediter Tiles:
Capacity Expediter. Enables staff to quickly understand the current and near-term balance of staffed bed capacity. Users easily navigate through unit, level of care, service, hospital, division, region, etc. to understand the bed balance from census to targeted admits, pending discharges, transfers and room cleaning in process, blocked beds and patients at a mismatched level of care.
ED Expediter. Provides real time situational awareness of recent ED arrival patterns, current pressure and break-down of patients waiting for labs, imaging, consults and beds; and it provides patient-level alerts for delays as well as frequent flyers, readmission risk, missing paperwork, etc.
Transfers Expediter. Provides real time awareness of patients waiting to enter and exit the health system or move between facilities. Moreover, it helps the team to drive the next step from physician-to-physician discussions through admission, bed assignment and arrival. The Tile also highlights opportunities to reroute patients based on current capacity constraints.
Imaging Expediter. Provides current and predicted utilization of selected imaging modalities, prioritizes the queue of inpatient scans according to each hospital’s desired configuration, pinpoints patient-readiness issues which will disrupt smooth flow, and highlights when the read of completed scans is delayed.
Boarders Expediter. Helps to expedite movement of delayed patients who are boarding in places like ED, OR, PACU and Direct Admissions. The Tile spotlights these patients, suggests matching beds when one is available but not assigned, alerts when an assigned bed is clean but transport hasn’t been called, and highlights rare issues like patients with both an admit and discharge order.