A Leading Florida Health System Reduced Average LOS by 13 Hours
This leading Florida health system is one of the largest employers in their county and has received an IBM Watson Health Top 100 Hospital recognition as well as a Top 100 Hospital with Magnet Designation. With over 45,000 inpatient admissions, this system was looking for a digital transformation to streamline discharge management and care team […]
Hendrick Health System Reduced Order to Discharge Time by 22% and ED Boarding Time by 49%
Hendrick Health System encompasses 850 beds across 3 hospitals, with 475 staff members managing nearly 37,000 annual discharges. To better handle this volume, they were in search of real-time insights that could create daily efficiencies, improve patient flow, and drive sustainable process improvements.
Increase ROI Through AI: Unlocking Scarce Capacity
The foundational math of capacity management, matching supply with demand, is broken. Existing tools and processes need to be fundamentally revamped for health systems to overcome waves of COVID-19 and similar shocks in the future, to maximize use of their assets, creating value for patients and themselves. The key is deploying proven and scalable AI-driven, […]
Leading the healthcare AI revolution: a letter from the LeanTaaS CEO
When I was growing up in India, my family installed a landline in our home. The lead time between starting the process and installing the phone was four years. We were the fortunate ones, as many of our friends waited even longer. Due to this lengthy lead time, many households in India never installed landlines […]
5 ways to use AI and automation to optimize hospital staffing
My inpatient flow teams and I have worked with hundreds of health systems and hospitals to improve their inpatient staffing and scheduling strategies. Many of these, as they tried to navigate understaffing challenges, began by using conventional processes and ineffective staffing technology. They had approached staffing the same way for many years, and were constantly […]
Open the front door to patient access: how AI helps direct inpatient flow to unlock capacity
The best way health systems can serve their surrounding communities is to provide consistent and timely access to care, for every patient who needs it. This not only improves patient outcomes, but drives higher revenue and keeps costs low. In the wake of the pandemic, hospitals in all settings have seen an influx of patients […]
The three levels of hospital length of stay management are strategic, tactical, and technical
Hospital length of stay, the amount of time in an episode of hospitalization from admission to discharge, is a universal and critical metric in U.S. healthcare. Most U.S. hospitals have some sort of desire to reduce length of stay as well as lower hospital readmission rates. But despite being a metric with a simple definition, […]
Supporting a new normal for hospital staff: how AI-powered automation can optimize valuable personnel and improve the provider experience
Healthcare’s shortage of providers, nurses and staff is no longer an acute crisis, but an ongoing reality. It is critical for healthcare leadership to support and optimize the valuable staffing resources who remain. To do so now, organizations must invest in long-term, sustainable AI-based solutions to relieve staff’s most pressing day-to-day burdens and help improve […]
Proactive discharge planning for more efficient patient flow: reduce “avoidable” days through actionable data
As the physicians, nurses, staff, and patient caregivers involved know all too well, inpatient discharge planning is critical to minimizing length of stay (LOS) and supporting the patient care journey. The process, however, is complex. Staffing shortages, fluctuating inpatient capacity, and economic pressures have complicated it even further. Hospital personnel do their best in these […]
UCHealth Decreased Overall Time to Admit by 16%
UCHealth is an integrated healthcare delivery system serving Colorado, southern Wyoming, and areas of Nebraska. The system consists of 12 hospitals with a total of 1,997 inpatient hospital beds and performs over 141,000 admissions and observation visits per year.