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Innovative Healthcare Informatics
Staff Reporters
Allocade Inc, a developer of innovative healthcare informatics solutions, just announced that it has installed its first commercial On-Cue™ system at Peninsula Medical Center in Burlingame, Calif. The company began selling its commercial product in January 2008, and the installation at Peninsula Medical Center was the first of seven sites Allocade completed by the end of 2008.
The Problem
Hospitals spend millions of dollars on solutions designed to shave minutes off of procedures. RIS, PACS, EMR, etc are all designed to improve the workflow of physicians, to enable quicker turnaround time for diagnosis. Most of these solutions focus on improving efficiency “post procedure”.
Human Resources Issues
In contrast, hospital staff is expected to track patients, coordinate between departments, handle real time disruptions, improve quality of patient care, etc using mostly manual processes. Limited tools are available to help technologists, nurses, transport, physicians, and even patients, more effectively navigate through the “chaos” characterized by most hospitals. Investment in “pre-procedure” tools and solutions has been limited, resulting in a sub-optimal use of expensive capital resources.
Focused on Helping Hospitals
And so, www.Allocade.com suggests the following benefits may be derived from using On-Cu™ to improve operating efficiencies:
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Manages the real time disruptions and “chaos” that occurs when in-patients, out-patients, ER cases, add-on’s, and unexpected delays all collide while competing for the same shared resources like a CT, MRI, US, IR, or ORs, etc.
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Re-schedules patients in real time to more optimally manage resources.
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Coordinates the numerous activities that must occur prior to a scan actually being completed, i.e. all the precursor tasks which require constant and real-time coordination between the radiology techs, nurses on the floor, the ER, transporters, and the referring offices.
Assessment
On-Cue™ is a software solution that claims to enable hospitals to reclaim un-used operating capacity.
Conclusion
And so, your thoughts and comments on this Medical Executive-Post are appreciated. Anyone out there a user – or convert?
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