Planning and optimisation
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PLANNING AND OPTIMISATION
Coordinate hospital capacity and patient flow
Give hospital operations teams a shared view of capacity constraints, readiness and service demand so they can review feasible flow options and coordinate agreed actions.
Industry
Healthcare and life sciences
Business function
Operations and delivery, Product and strategy
Business goal
Improve decision quality, Plan cost and capacity
Solution category
Monitoring and decision support, Planning and optimisation
The opportunity
A nominally available bed or resource may lack the staffing, readiness or clinical suitability required for use. Operational decisions need an up-to-date view of those constraints together.
How it works
- 01
Collect current demand, staffed capacity and resource-readiness information.
- 02
Identify exceptions and check the operational constraints affecting each option.
- 03
Present feasible coordination options to the responsible operational and clinical teams.
- 04
Record the accepted decision and reconcile it with actual movement.
What it needs
- Capacity, staffing and readiness records
- Current demand and movement information
- Clinical suitability and operational constraints
What it produces
- Capacity exception view
- Feasible flow options
- Decision and movement follow-up record
Where people decide
Operational and clinical owners approve patient-flow decisions using current staffing, suitability and readiness information.
Example application
A hospital coordination team reviews a capacity exception, confirms which resources are ready for use and records the agreed response with the responsible teams.
What to measure
Evaluation measures to agree before release, not achieved results.
- Time to resolve capacity exceptions
- Agreement between planned and confirmed readiness
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