Great article how wireless technology helped turn this hospital around...it's all about information technology and using it rather than doing the paper chase around the building and relying on the fire drill to the fax machines...BD
Technology developed by a 10-year old South Side company has helped to turn around a money-losing hospital in Buffalo, N.Y.
"Our OR utilization rate was 55 percent. Now it's 92 percent," he said. "By filling up almost 40 percent of empty ORs, it was like getting four new operating rooms. We can fill them up with patients. And surgeons are coming here because they know they can (treat) more patients." "Health care operates in silos. By collecting this information and distributing it, we try to open it up and make it much more transparent," Ilkin said. "Our motto is, 'We can't manage what we can't measure,' " Ilkin said.
The company, PeriOptimum Inc., created a wireless system of tracking patients through surgery. Called PathFinder, the technology uses a keyfob-like radio transmitter that is clipped to a patient's IV tube as he or she is readied for surgery. It transmits his or her status before and during surgery to operating room and post-op personnel, helping to reduce costly downtime among the surgical suites.
Erie County Medical Center CEO Michael Young said the system was instrumental in transforming his facility from one that lost $30 million annually to one that posted an $11 million profit in 2006. The hospital is on target to report net income of $15 million this year.
Tech firm's wireless system 'saves' hospital - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
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