Inpatient units today face a constant risk of bottlenecks that disrupt patient flow, delay discharges, and strain staff capacity. Hospital leaders may have access to data but it’s often siloed and they lack the time to interpret the data, pinpoint breakdowns and focus on the actions that will have the greatest impact. Without a reliable way to pinpoint the processes most responsible for bottlenecks, hospitals cannot improve patient flow and focus limited resources on the changes that will yield meaningful, sustained improvements.
The right data and insights can transform this reactive approach into a proactive strategy that can improve throughput and LOS. This is why we’re excited to introduce the new Inpatient Capacity Insights, a key component of our comprehensive Inpatient Capacity Solution.
The Complete Solution for Inpatient Capacity
Before diving into the new Insights Suite, it’s important to understand how it fits within our broader vision for solving capacity challenges. The Qventus Inpatient Capacity Solution is designed to reduce length of stay (LOS), create new capacity, and empower care teams to operate at the top of their license. Powered by our industry-first AI teammates, the solution embeds directly into your EHR to automate and orchestrate the entire discharge process.
It starts by setting aggressive but achievable estimated discharge dates (EDDs) and dispositions for nearly every patient by the first morning after admission. From there, our AI Assistants help orchestrate the closure of patient-level care gaps, optimize the use of ancillary resources, and provide real-time visibility for both frontline teams and leaders. What makes our solution unique is that our machine learning models are locally trained on your specific patient populations and care patterns, allowing for robust predictions personalized to your hospital. It’s like giving your teams AI-powered assistants to manage the administrative burden of discharge planning so they can focus on patient care.
Deep Dive: The New Inpatient Capacity Insights
Inpatient Capacity Insights helps hospitals accelerate throughput and improve patient flow by surfacing the data needed to drive accountability and continuous improvement. It gives leaders the ability to see trends, identify systemic friction points, and focus their teams on the opportunities that will have the greatest impact.
The feature is comprised of three key components:
- The Daily Insights Hub: This is your command center for daily operations. It provides real-time visibility to make informed decisions and drive actions that ensure discharge success.
- The My Teams Hub: Built for nursing, case management, physicians, and ancillary leaders, this suite provides real-time insights into discharge planning performance and key process breakdowns to better drive team accountability and improve throughput.
- The Opportunity Insights Hub: This suite helps you identify the top drivers of excess days, drill into key processes to uncover root causes, and benchmark performance to reveal the most actionable opportunities for improvement. This helps you pinpoint top areas driving excess days and zero in on key patient populations by service, disposition, and unit.
By combining our end-to-end automation and orchestration with powerful analytics, you create a system of continuous improvement. With the Inpatient Capacity Solution, Qventus clients reduce excess days by 15-30% and reduce ED boarding by 10-20%. This newfound capacity allows you to accept more transfers, accommodate more surgeries, and serve more patients from your community, all while improving the experience for both patients and staff.
