Improve Patient Throughput And Improve Patient Flow

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Improve Patient Throughput And Improve Patient
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Improve Patient Throughput And Improve Patient
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In current COVID 19 pandemic situation healthcare
leaders are under a lot of pressure to streamline
operations to become the low-cost provider,
high-quality, now is the time to focus on
increase patient flow. Optimizing flow is like a
solving difficult puzzle, be it hospital or
independent physicians office. They have to
combine different strategies and processes to
ensure all staff members in finding the best fit.
The result should be efficient operation that
should be conductive to improve clinical
outcomes, improve patient experience, physician
satisfaction with improved safety, reduced care
cost and more. As stay home orders are lifting
around the country, providers must find safe ways
to integrate non-emergency care and elective
procedures into their facilities again. While it
might seem tough to increase patient flow during
this pandemic uncertain time, healthcare
providers can arrange IoT technologies to improve
efficiency in every all departments and prepare
for challenges. What Is Patient
Throughput? Patient throughput allows for the
efficient flow of patients through the hospital,
ensuring timely and appropriate level of care.
Hospitals who have prioritized patient throughput
have realized improvements in quality patient
care, patient satisfaction, as well as a positive
financial impact.
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• Importance of Increase in Patient Flow
• When patient throughput is effective and
  well-organized, healthcare providers avoid
  overcrowded departments, care delivery delays,
  all of which eventually affect a patients
  health, comfort and satisfaction. With an
  efficient patient workflow, healthcare staff
  experience a job satisfaction.
• By understanding and controlling patient
  throughput better, hospitals and their patients
  can expect the following benefits
• Decreased costs to the health care facility
• Improved staff satisfaction
• Increased productivity
• Reduced wait times
• Improved patient care
• In addition to improving current workflow,
  preparing to open a new facility is a great
  opportunity to think through strategies and
  technologies that would address workflow
  challenges.

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• Communication
• Patient throughput must be addressed on a
  whole-hospital / practice level. Every part of
  the hospital or your practice is connected, and
  the cause of a patient flow issue or bottleneck
  may occur several steps before its noticeable
  effect. For instance, a patient flow problem in
  the inpatient units may be the result of issues
  with discharge procedures. Therefore, all
  hospital staff members, including nurses,
  physicians and administrators, must understand
  the objective to improve patient flow and the
  processes required to accomplish related goals.
• To get started, the team might draw a patient
  throughput diagram to map the current design and
  measure performance. Team members should ask
  questions such as
• Are there any bottlenecks with the current
  patient flow process?
• Are all the steps in the current flow necessary?
• How often do staff members complete each step?
• Can some of the steps be completed at the same
  time?
• Is there a better way to sequence the steps?
• Can someone with lesser skills perform a certain
  step?
• What technology can be used to make steps easier?

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Culture of Accountability Everyone must
participate and should take responsibility for
the facilitys successes and promise to making a
positive change. Healthcare providers should
clearly communicate expectations and hold
everyone to a best performance. In addition to
encouraging all staff members to participate in
the strategic process. Staffing Models Several
factors including a facilitys geographic
location and budget can make it tough to identify
how best to staff a facility. The use of scribes
significantly improves the amount of contact time
physicians have with patients. With less time
spent on record keeping and administrative tasks,
physicians can decrease wait times and focus on
patients, driving both efficiency and patient
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