Effective bed management in a hospital requires timely communication and coordination of efforts among clinical staff, patient placement staff, nursing unit staff, environmental services staff, admitting staff, and patient transportation staff. With Access Bed Control™ (ABC), both bed status and patient pending admission status is communicated among these parties, accurately, automatically, and immediately. ABC is a management tool designed to facilitate efficient patient matching with appropriate beds, especially important for unscheduled admissions, and also efficient bed management. The result is reduced bed turnaround time and improved patient flow and bed utilization through greater productivity of key personnel.

Patient Placement

The goal for ABC is to provide automation support for the process of collecting real-time information about the demand for, and supply of, various bed and room configurations, and for matching pending admission patients with appropriate beds in the most efficient way.

Bed Management

The goal for ABC is to provide support for
the process of collecting and communicating real-time information about patient discharges and transfers, and monitoring the bed cleaning process until the bed assignment is completed and the bed becomes available for the
next patient.

Patient Transportation

The Transportation module of ABC allows ED and other patient care units to enter transport requests from computers located throughout the hospital using LAN based or Web browser order entry forms, and to view the status of patients scheduled to arrive at or leave from their units.

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