Answer to E.R. Overcrowding Crisis in the Palm of Your Hand; New TeleTracking Mobiles Help Control Patient Flow, Surge Problems.PITTSBURGH Pittsburgh (pĭts`bərg), city (1990 pop. 369,879), seat of Allegheny co., SW Pa., at the confluence of the Allegheny and the Monongahela rivers, which there form the Ohio River; inc. 1816. -- As the crisis in emergency room overcrowding overcrowding overcrowding of animal accommodation. Many countries now publish codes of practice which define what the appropriate volumetric allowances should be for each species of animal when they are housed indoors. Breaches of these codes is overcrowding. gets worse, a possible solution can be right in the palm of your hand. TeleTracking Technologies, the leader in patient flow automation, today announces BedTracking mobile(TM), the newest addition to their expanded hand-held mobile strategy. The new wireless PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) A handheld computer for managing contacts, appointments and tasks. It typically includes a name and address database, calendar, to-do list and note taker, which are the functions in a personal information manager (see PIM). application helps environmental services The various combinations of scientific, technical, and advisory activities (including modification processes, i.e., the influence of manmade and natural factors) required to acquire, produce, and supply information on the past, present, and future states of space, atmospheric, professionals avert patient flow problems and speed bed turnover from anywhere in the hospital. It joins bedboard mobile(TM), the industry's first hand-held bed management and patient placement application, to give front-line providers the strongest tools ever to combat overcrowding. BedTracking mobile(TM) provides real-time 1. real-time - Describes an application which requires a program to respond to stimuli within some small upper limit of response time (typically milli- or microseconds). Process control at a chemical plant is the classic example. information on all hospital bed status -- occupied, dirty, in progress, clean, clean next or STAT -- as well as pending transfer or discharge status. And since users can communicate directly with their staff via a few 'taps', they can manage ahead for speedier bed turnover, or identify bottlenecks before they happen. Other features include 'alerts' when bed cleaning requests are delayed, re-assigning tasks on the fly, and much more. Improving bed management is critical to relieving ER overcrowding, which The Institute of Medicine said recently is at a crisis point. The institute predicted current overcrowding would paralyze par·a·lyze v. To affect with paralysis; cause to be paralytic. America's ERs in the event of a catastrophic event such as terrorist act, a natural disaster, or a disease epidemic epidemic, outbreak of disease that affects a much greater number of people than is usual for the locality or that spreads to regions where it is ordinarily not present. . Both mobile solutions are designed for use with TeleTracking Technologies' Bed Management Suite(TM) of software solutions, which includes BedTracking(R) and PreAdmitTracking(TM) with the electronic bedboard(TM). Pittsburgh-based TeleTracking Technologies is the leading producer of patient flow software solutions, including The Bed Management Suite(TM) (BedTracking(R) and PreAdmitTracking(TM) with the electronic bedboard(TM)) and TransportTracking(TM). Since launching the patient flow automation industry more than a decade ago, it has implemented over 1200 solutions at 650 acute care hospitals in the U.S. and Canada. For more information on the company or its Capacity Management Solutions(TM), call 800-927-0294 or visit www.teletracking.com. |
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