Bed Management & Infection Control

Bed Management goes beyond simple patient and bed tracking

Effective bed tracking - matching the supply of beds with predictable demand to manage patient flow - and improved visibility of patient and bed status is a focal point for hospital efficiency and improved quality of care. Diversions, delays or cancellations in bed tracking and effective resource management affects many different parts of a healthcare organisation.

Orion Health’s Bed Management application is a web-based tool that incorporates sophisticated workflow and productivity tools that can be tailored to the healthcare organisations best practices.

Using Orion Health software, Infection Control Teams and bed managers can quickly see site, ward and global status of infections and Ward capacity. If a Laboratory result identifies a patient as having an infectious condition, the patient icon in the Whiteboard map is highlighted. An automated notification can be configured through existing Alert and Laboratory systems to be sent to the Infection Control Team.

Bed Management provides the following benefits to healthcare organisations:
  • Capacity management
  • Current and forecasted bed demand
  • Status of planned discharges
  • Infection status
  • Resource allocation

Optimizes Bed Turns
  • Eliminates ‘hidden beds’
  • Reduces unnecessary holds
  • Accelerates discharges through ideal patient placement or prioritized discharge
  • Fully integrated with other Orion Health products to ensure real-time communications, task queuing & escalation notification.

Flexible
  • Configurable for large organisations over multiple sites and large geographic areas
  • Tailored to an organisations best practices

Streamlines Workflow
  • Beds are managed at point of care
  • Reduces paperwork through reporting bed states, side Ward lists and occupancy levels
  • Streamlines handover processes in a single step
  • Increased patient satisfaction
  • Minimises patient movement through greater visibility of upcoming patient admission and clinician’s estimations of discharge.