Boston Children's builds dashboard to better manage patient capacity and beds
Boston Children’s Hospital was having a capacity management issue. The provider organization has had an ever-increasing demand for its services from both local and regional populations, but also significant numbers from national and international patients, as well.
As a result, the hospital found that it had more and more instances in which it had outstripped its physical footprint. Consequently, Boston Children's has embarked on building new venues for clinical care that should be ready in a few years.
Between now and then, though, and to become more efficient well into the future, Boston Children’s Hospital needed to maximize the use of every single bed and facility to meet its growing demand. To that end, it built a real-time operational dashboard that enables the hospital to have situational awareness of the minute-to-minute status of its capacity and its future capacity to care for more patients.
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