Patient Flow

Track and manage capacity across your organization to make better use of beds and clinical staff
Capacity Command Center
Capacity across your system is transparent and shown in real-time. Monitor performance goals and staff productivity and quickly find opportunities for open beds across hospitals.
Capacity Command Center
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Reduce Length of Stay
As soon as a patient is admitted, start planning for their discharge using tools that help you address roadblocks and monitor discharge trends so that patients can go home sooner.
Reduce Length of Stay
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Predictive Analytics
See predicted length of stay, admissions you can expect from the ED, tomorrow’s projected census, a patient’s likely destination after surgery, and more.
Predictive Analytics
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Hospital-Wide Visibility
Patient flow and capacity information is visible and actionable for the whole organization. Nurses and unit coordinators always know where to find their patients without logging into a separate system.
Hospital-Wide Visibility
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Transfer Center
Coordinate patient movement between facilities and organizations with the full picture of which patients will be the best fit for your hospital. Providers from other organizations can start transfer requests in your community portal instead of having to pick up the phone.
Transfer Center
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Bed Planning
Bed planners can act on outstanding requests and identify bottlenecks right away, without calling a unit for more information or logging into a separate system.
Bed Planning
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Transport
Automatically assign transport requests within the hospital based on proximity and priority, and automatically create transport requests for appointments and transfers so staff don’t have to.
Transport
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Environmental Services
Make staff aware of required cleaning protocols automatically based on isolation information in the patient’s chart. Automatically assign cleaning requests based on staff skills and request priority to improve efficiency.
Environmental Services
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Saving Time, Saving Lives with a Centralized Patient Flow Center
Ochsner Health opened a centralized patient flow center to increase the efficiency of inter- and intra-hospital transfers. Patients receive the right level of care sooner, an improvement that saves an estimated 56 lives annually.
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Mobile Teamwork for Faster Bed Turnaround
By using Epic’s mobile app, Rover, to connect housekeeping staff and clinicians, Parkview Health has reduced turnaround time by 7 minutes per bed, so patients can be roomed sooner.
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Bringing Care Closer to Home by Decreasing Length of Stay, Readmissions, and ED Diversions
Monument Health leveraged technology and standardized processes to improve patient flow, reducing length of stay by 22% and readmissions by 10%.
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Cool Stuff Now: Staffing & Patient Flow
Learn more about how you can improve your health system's staffing and patient flow with Epic.
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