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BedWatch Reports Help Hospitals Comply with Joint Commission Regulations & Guidelines

Steve Jourdan - Jul 22, 2015 9:28:00 PM

The Joint Commission now requires that hospital leaders be able to demonstrate that they are not only regularly measuring and monitoring patient flow operations through the Emergency Department, but that they are establishing goals and actively working to drive performance improvement.

Topics: hospital reimbursements- News- health IT- healthcare data- hospital data- joint commission

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“Transfers Within the Same Unit” Report Helps BedWatch Users Track Medically-Unnecessary Patient Transfers

Steve Jourdan - Jul 15, 2015 9:17:00 AM

BedWatch Admit Control and Bed Control feature a variety of built-in reports designed to help users get the most out of our technology and the data it captures. One of these reports, the “Transfers Within the Same Unit” report, allows hospital administrators to monitor and track patient transfers that occur within the same unit.

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BedWatch Launches First International Partnership in Chile

Steve Jourdan - Jul 8, 2015 10:34:00 PM

The BedWatch Team is proud to announce an international partnership with a group of hospitals in Santiago, Chile, marking the first BedWatch implementation outside the United States.

Topics: News

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Feature Update: Expanding Ability to Mark Patient Beds & Rooms “Not Staffed”

Steve Jourdan - Jul 1, 2015 9:39:00 AM

Hospital administrators using BedWatch Bed Control now have the ability to mark patient beds and rooms as “Not Staffed,” making them unavailable, without affecting the cleaning process.

Topics: News

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BedWatch Patient Flow Technology Puts Comprehensive Throughput Data at Hospital Leaders’ Fingertips

Steve Jourdan - Jun 23, 2015 11:15:00 PM

At BedWatch, we understand that you can’t manage what you don’t measure, which is why each of our patient throughput management tools collect comprehensive, time-and-date-stamped data around each point of the patient flow process.

Topics: News

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Identify Trends and Drive Process Improvement with the BedWatch Discharge Dashboard

Steve Jourdan - Jun 17, 2015 10:48:00 AM

BedWatch Admit Control incorporates a Discharge Dashboard, which allows hospital leaders to accurately measure and track patient admissions and discharges over time.

Topics: News

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BedWatch Provides Placement Staff with Hospital-Wide & System-Wide Bed Status Views

Steve Jourdan - Jun 10, 2015 11:39:00 AM

One of the top complaints we hear from House Supervisors and Patient Placement staff is that they do not have access to real-time bed status information in their hospitals — BedWatch solves that problem by making the status of every bed in the hospital or system visible from a single Bed Board.

Topics: Patient Flow- placing patients- News- hospital patient flow- patient placement- patient wait times- emergency department wait times- fixing patient flow- reducing patient wait times- bed board- hospital bed board- hospital system bed board- hospital system patient placement- hospital wait times- hospital wide bed board- reducing patient waits- system wide bed board- whole hospital bed board

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BedWatch “Data Download” Provides More Robust Reporting & Actionable Data

Steve Jourdan - Jun 3, 2015 12:32:00 AM

At BedWatch, we are committed to the constant improvement and continued development of our technology tools. We are working toward a major reporting update and augmentation, which we expect to have in place by the end of the year. In anticipation of these significant expansions of our built-in reporting tools and features, we have already begun to improve functionality for our users.

Topics: News

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New Housekeeping App helps EVS Team Manage Discharge Cleans More Efficiently

Steve Jourdan - May 27, 2015 10:22:00 AM

BedWatch Bed Control features a new Housekeeping App, which allows EVS staff to use handhelds and smartphones, in addition to pagers and landline phones, to communicate with BedWatch Bed Control.

Topics: News

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BedWatch Partner Drives Significant Patient Transport Improvements Despite Rising ADC

Steve Jourdan - May 20, 2015 10:45:00 PM

A 250-bed BedWatch partner hospital in northeastern Florida was able to use BedWatch Transport Control to drive significant improvement in daily patient transport operations, despite a rising ADC and a reduction in Patient Transport staff.

Topics: News

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