Appointment schedules should reflect physicians' work style and patient demands. One of the major mistakes many physicians make is thinking patient flow problems happen because of major time-consuming ...

Carilion Clinic has managed its stretched hospital bed capacity with a command center and post-acute referral hub. Carilion Clinic has mastered the intricacies of operating a command center and ...

1. Ask every department to participate in promoting efficiency. Patient flow can be disrupted when separate departments and providers do not talk about the hold-ups in each area, Dr. Noonan says. “You ...

In today’s rapidly evolving healthcare environment, hospitals are under constant pressure to maintain efficient patient flow – a critical factor that influences everything from operational performance ...

Outpatient oncology clinics face substantial challenges in coordinating high volumes of treatments with limited resources. The optimisation of patient flow and appointment scheduling is critical to ...

Long waits, frustrated patients, and overburdened staff—these scenarios plague clinics without efficient scheduling systems. Running a clinic demands more than just good healthcare; managing patient ...

AI-driven patient flow technology is transforming healthcare by streamlining patient journeys and reducing length of stay (LOS) in hospitals. These tools facilitate visibility to real-time insights, ...

It may not match the scale of the exodus of nurses from the healthcare workforce, but a growing shortage of physicians is no less of a threat to patient care. A recent survey found that one in five ...

Traditionally, health systems have operated and behaved as unified entities in name only, with different hospitals and facilities within the same system working off of their own sets of key ...

Anyone who is not in the medical profession and who has wandered into an emergency room may be baffled by the hours of waiting and the mysterious process by which nurses and doctors move patients ...