CSWRealTime from CSW is a unique tool that helps hospitals to improve bed management and reduce Average Length of Stay (ALOS)
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Benefits of RealTime

patientRealTime monitors Length of Stay in real time at various levels, including

  • Individual patients and beds
  • Wards
  • Hospitals
  • Across and between organisations

RealTime allows care planning and discharge planning to be integrated

  • From admission
  • Using clinically-driven criteria
  • Tracking key indicators for the most prevalent diagnoses and HRGs
  • Prompting interaction amongst the care team to improve Discharge Planning process (nurses, discharge planners, doctors, physiotherapists, social workers)

RealTime uses clinical best practice and targets to improve clinical outcomes

  • Set and monitor local targets for Length of Stay
  • Compare local practice with national guidelines on best practice
  • Support clinical and administrative process change

RealTime provides the ability to track delayed discharge

  • Clinically re-plan and control
  • Bringing focus to types of delays that are causing issues
  • Managing those issues, leading to process improvements

RealTime allows Bed Managers and Discharge Planners to

  • Track occupancy in real time
  • Plan for future elective admissions
  • Access all the information needed for their decision making

RealTime is coupled with a proven consulting service for clinically-driven process change to

  • Assess present structure/processes/readiness
  • Support the move to new processes which optimize reductions in Length of Stay
  • Sustain improvements over the medium and long term

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