Apprise Health Insights

Our team had a great time presenting at this week's Patient Flow Management Summit! Thanks Business Research & Intelligence Network for hosting the event and to all of our friends and partners who made it such a success.

We hope to see you next week at the 2025 Patient Flow Management Summit (Business Research & Intelligence Network), January 30-31, at the MGM Grand Hotel & Casino Las Vegas. "Oregon Hospitals Using Real-Time Data to Transform Care: PeaceHealth and the Healthcare Capacity System" will be presented by our own?Helene Anderson DNP, NEA-BC,?with Sally Mack, MHA, from?PeaceHealth?on Thursday morning.

"This is the largest incident of this kind in the 25 years that I've been here in Hawaii. No hospital in the state can afford to have people sitting around," said Hilton Raethel, CEO of the Healthcare Association of Hawaii. "[The Healthcare Capacity System] is a great tool for being able to manage and triage care in incidents like this."? ? A devastating fireworks explosion in Honolulu on New Year's Eve required quick action by first responders who had to assess and triage patients to six hospitals across the island. Supporting health care workers so they can take care of patients is why the Healthcare Capacity System (HCS) exists. We're proud that dispatchers could use HCS to make informed, time-sensitive decisions about where patients could access lifesaving care. https://lnkd.in/gE62N7qZ

Huge thanks to our team for all their hard work this year. Today, we were honored to be recognized with a Health Care Innovation Award from the Portland Business Journal for our Healthcare Capacity System tool. We couldn't do this without their effort. Team work truly does make the dream work.

Congrats to our Board of Directors, Chair, Jeremy Davis for this recognition. Your leadership during our period of growth has been invaluable.

Thank you SouthEast Texas Regional Advisory Council for including Andy Van Pelt and Helene Anderson DNP, NEA-BC at your annual meeting. We love working with people who share our vision around capacity data across the continuum.

“This is a game changer for us because prior to this capacity system going live, everything that we did in terms of aggregating numbers and communicating with each other and with government agencies was very manual. This gives us a tremendous new ability to get real-time data to the right people.”- Travis Clegg, FACHE, Chief Operating Officer, Straub Clinic and Hospital Hospitals around the country are seeing the benefits of the Healthcare Capacity System’s automated data tool. Real-time awareness of hospital bed capacity and resources is critical for effective healthcare management. However, this level of communication isn't always streamlined within hospitals or across a state. HCS improves communication by providing real-time data within and among hospitals. HCS allows hospitals to: 1. Track open beds in their region 2. Share capacity information efficiently 3. Streamline resource allocation By automating these processes, HCS significantly improves regional coordination and patient care, ensuring that healthcare resources are optimized when they're needed most.

Proud of Apprise Health Insights for being invited to the AHRQ Summit on Boarding at U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) along with Helene Anderson DNP, NEA-BC to discuss our groundbreaking work and learnings from the Heathcare Capacity System.

Apprise recently hosted our virtual Best Practice Session for Healthcare Capacity System (HCS) users. This session provided a valuable opportunity to connect with our partners, even if only virtually! We heard from guest speakers Mimi Richert from the National Institutes of Health and Beth (Pallo) Golshir from the CDC. Additionally, HCS users presented including Daniel Davis, senior director of patient flow at St. Charles Health System in Bend, Ore. Daniel shared how HCS proved crucial this summer as the health system assessed potential fire evacuations due to two regional wildfires. While under Level 1 evacuation status, he reviewed HCS data every morning to gauge regional capacity in case patient evacuation became necessary. Daniel also utilized his communication channels to share this vital HCS data. We extend our sincere thanks to all partners who participated and shared their experiences during our Best Practices meeting!

Is your hospital ready for new Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) reporting requirements? Starting Nov. 1st, CMS will require hospitals and critical access hospitals to electronically report information related to flu, COVID-19 and RSV. This new CMS rule aims to improve disease surveillance, enhance public health coordination, and improve patient outcomes. Key reporting requirements include:? ?? Confirmed infections among newly admitted and hospitalized patients? ??Total bed census and capacity? ??Limited patient demographic information Pro tip: Simplify your reporting process with the Healthcare Capacity System (HCS). HCS streamlines the collection of bed census and capacity data, ensuring compliance with new CMS regulations—while giving your team real-time insights to better manage resources.? Let’s work together to build a more responsive, informed health care system. Read more about the updated CMS reporting requirements here: https://lnkd.in/diZpciZz