Michael Silverman, M.D., and Puneet Chopra, M.D., both partners with Emergency Medicine Associates, discuss how to best create observation units in emergency rooms to improve patient flow.
They say, among other things, that hospital leaders must find out whether an observation unit properly aligns with the ER and the wider hospital’s goals, and the space, money and staff a hospital would to need to create such a unit.
Herewith a look at how the patient experience has changed in patient-flow pioneer TeleTracking’s first quarter century.
“A RAND study published in TeleTracking’s Patient Flow Quarterly outlined how higher efficiency generated by better throughput management can result in million dollar savings….By implementing a command center in which operations are centrally controlled, staff are able to give detailed accounts of patient information to both off-site physicians and caregivers they may be coordinating with….”
