Patient flow forecasting
ORTEC Patient Flow Forecasting provides predictive insight into patient flows, enabling you to:
- Organize work schedules (outpatient consultation hours, OR schedules, etc.) and create
- stable, even patient flow between departments
- Match staff and resource deployment to expected and predicted occupancy levels
- Reduce waiting times
- Spread workloads more evenly
Better logistics coordination prevents crowding
On their care journey, patients will often encounter several wards and departments, which means that occupancy and workloads in one department can be heavily dependent on other departments. Patient inflow in the radiology department, for instance, is a direct result of outpatient consultation
hours and the OR schedule affects bed occupancy in nursing wards.
This can make it difficult for departments to provide a high level of service, be productive and keep workloads at a manageable level. Capacity levels and patient appointments often require last-minute adjustments, and although ad-hoc changes can briefly relieve the pressure, they never lead
to structural improvements.
The challenge, therefore, is to optimize logistical coordination between successive departments.
More peace of mind and control with Patient Flow Forecasting
Solving this problem without resorting to capacity hikes requires specific expertise in predicting patient flows. With ORTEC’s Patient Flow Forecasting solution, you can:
- Use an extra operating room without having to free up more beds
- Reduce waiting times for radiology walk-ins
- Increase patient intake numbers per nurse
- Comply with the protocol for clinical physiotherapy after surgery
- Distribute workloads more evenly
- Speed up the discharge process by keeping the pharmacy looped in
Predictive insight
Our forecasting software provides predictive insight into patient flows, enabling you to:
- Organize work schedules (outpatient consultation hours, OR schedules, etc.) and create stable, even and predictable patient flow between departments
- Match staff and resource deployment to expected and predicted occupancy levels
Easy to use and integrate
Patient Flow Forecasting is a cloud application, which means that all departments can access it anytime, anywhere. The application is part of our integrated capacity management software suite but can also be used independently.
Patient Flow Forecasting can also be paired with calendar management and multi-resource planning for medical teams, as well as roster planning and workstation planning.
Results in practice
Our predictive software paves the way for:
- Better treatment: no more last-minute changes, all appointments are kept and treatment protocols are followed
- More balanced workload distribution for healthcare professionals: no more all or nothing
- Efficient operations: treat more patients with the same capacity levels
Collaboration between ORTEC, CHOIR and Rhythm
Patient Flow Forecasting was created with help from Rhythm, a partnership between ORTEC and CHOIR, a research group at the University of Twente. Rhythm's forecasting methods have been scientifically validated CHOIR and are unlocked by ORTEC in its Patient Flow Forecasting product.
