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New Admit Control Features Allow Hospital EDs to Track Patients Pending Discharge vs. Patients Pending Transfer to Surgery

Steve Jourdan - Aug 24, 2016 12:30:00 PM

BedWatch Admit Control users making bed requests within the Emergency Department (ED) now have the ability to indicate whether the patient in question will be discharged, or if he or she will be transferred to surgery, in order to help patient placement staff within the hospital better anticipate incoming patient volume from the ED.

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Patient Placement Staff Can Request Beds and Place Patients Using an iPhone

Steve Jourdan - Mar 9, 2016 10:55:00 AM

BedWatch Admit Control is fully mobile, like all BedWatch products, and allows users to access the full spectrum of tools using any Internet-capable device — even a smartphone.

Topics: Bed Turnover Improvement- Patient Flow- hospital flow- patient placement tools- News- health IT- healthcare tech- healthcare technology- Bed Turnover- fixing patient throughput- hospital patient flow- patient placement- BedWatch technology- patient wait times- Hospital bed management

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Admit Control Supports Charge-to-Charge Patient Placement

Steve Jourdan - Sep 16, 2015 12:04:00 PM

The BedWatch suite of patient throughput management tools — Admit Control, Bed Control and Transport Control — are designed to empower hospital users to communicate with one another and manage patient flow processes in real time.

Topics: hospital throughput- Patient Flow- patient throughput- bed management- bed placement- hospital patient placement- managing patient flow- nurse management- placing patients- News- patient transport- patient placement- patient wait times

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160-Bed Pennsylvania Hospital Cuts Average Bed Turnover Time by 50% in First 30 Days

Steve Jourdan - Jul 27, 2015 1:01:00 AM

This 160-bed hospital in Pennsylvania brought BedWatch Bed Control on board in December 2014 to help address slow turnover times and a lack of bed visibility.

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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.

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BedWatch Features Update: Customizable Escalation Notifications

Steve Jourdan - Sep 3, 2014 10:49:00 AM

BedWatch Bed Control, BedWatch Transport Control, and BedWatch Admit Control feature customizable escalation notifications, which can be configured to meet the needs of each individual hospital partner, in order to minimize delays and ensure processes move forward as efficiently as possible.

Topics: Patient Flow- patient throughput- bed management- Patient Flow Technology- News- patient transport- hospital patient flow- patient placement- Hospital bed management

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BedWatch Features Update: First Look at Admit Control | Aug. 20, 2014

Steve Jourdan - Aug 20, 2014 10:00:00 AM

The BedWatch product development team is hard at work getting Admit Control ready for general availability. The admission management product, which is 100% cloud-based and will integrate seamlessly with BedWatch Bed Control and BedWatch Transport Control, is set to launch in Q4.

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