“The failure to efficiently manage the input and output of patients in a methodical manner not only frustrates patients and delays care, but also negatively affects facility quality and outcomes measures.”
“For example, such delays can adversely impact a VA Medical Center’s Strategic Analytics for Improvement and Learning metrics that are used to assess the quality of care at each Department of Veterans Affairs facility. Some of the SAIL metrics impacted by patient flow delays include length of stay, readmission rate, acute care mortality rate, patient satisfaction, wait times and nursing staff turnover. Health care organizations need a software-driven solution, based on industry best practices, that provides actionable insights, predictions and data transparency around each stage of the patient journey…” Read the full article here.
Source: Improving the VA patient journey with data transparency – By David LaBorde, November 16, 2018. GCN.
