Patient Flow Quarterly Issue 11: Making Connections

Fall 2018

In this Patient Flow Quarterly, we focus on the importance of connections and how those connections generate innovative ideas, new learnings and greater successes for everyone involved.

Key features to help you create your own connections―and improve health system operations― include:

• Leadership on a Mission: Chris Johnson shares his thoughts on how TeleTracking is helping health systems achieve excellence in care.

• Tech Leadership: A conversation with Halifax Health’s CIO, Tom Stafford―Tom discusses what he learned at TeleCon17 about the integral role patient flow plays in overall operations and why it deserves top-tier attention.

• The Proven Path to Improving Care: Driving Success Through Best Practices―How nearly three decades of experience has led to a well-thought-out set of best practices that focus on the right activities to drive impactful outcomes for both patients and staff.

• Community Scheduling and Workflow [CSW], Part 3: Tracy Lopez, Product Specialist, discusses how CSW makes it possible to improve patient/provider communications and consequently the patient experience.

• Room to Move, Improving Access to Care with Transfer Center Technology: Cheryl Stokes, Director of Clinical Resource Management and Patient Intake at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, discusses the impact centralized patient placement has had on patient care.

• Challenge, Action, Result: Maine Medical Center [MMC]: MMC launched One Call Central, their centralized patient placement approach, to manage the care and the volume of patients to deliver the best possible care.

You’ll also find industry news, as well as where to find TeleTracking at the Patient Flow Management Summit, January 31-February 1, 2019 in Las Vegas and at HIMSS19, February 11-15, 2019 in Orlando.