One of the overall goals of healthcare reform is to move from a fragmented healthcare system to an integrated model that provides services more efficiently and at less cost. Within hospitals, this ...

Patient flow or patient throughput has become a major concern for most hospital CEOs because their organizations are beginning to experience the real human and financial costs of not addressing the ...

Carilion Clinic has managed its stretched hospital bed capacity with a command center and post-acute referral hub. Carilion Clinic has mastered the intricacies of operating a command center and ...

Traditionally, health systems have operated and behaved as unified entities in name only, with different hospitals and facilities within the same system working off of their own sets of key ...

Although health systems have seen some much-needed improvement to operating margins in recent quarters, these positive headlines mask a disturbing reality that illustrates the immense challenges most ...

In the hospital setting, care coordination often starts in the emergency department, this CMO says. Care coordination is an important consideration for CMOs because patients often interact with ...

UnityAI, a Nashville-based healthcare technology startup, secured $4 million in seed capital to scale up its care orchestration technology that's designed to improve patient flow in a hospital setting ...

The Patient Transfer and Access Center in October is designed to improve capacity and patient flow at the state's largest health system. BMC official defends change to refugee housing policy Mass.

Outpatient oncology clinics face substantial challenges in coordinating high volumes of treatments with limited resources. The optimisation of patient flow and appointment scheduling is critical to ...

GE HealthCare collaborates with two major medical systems to advance AI technology designed to transform hospital operations and improve patient care - Queen’s and a nationally recognized academic ...

Bed capacity management is of critical importance to health systems, impacting patient care and safety, operational efficiency, system sustainability and financial performance. Efforts to improve and ...