RealTime 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
RealTime 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