Hospital Demand And Capacity Management

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The application alerts users in real time based on various events and provides them an ability to act on them while on the move.

Business Challenge:

Effective handling of demand and capacity management of the hospital resources need access to real time data on the usage and location of the resources, data on the patient inflow, diagnostics and resource needs. Provisioning the necessary data and the ability to act on the same technically translated in to the following:

Coming up with an intuitive, efficient interface, without compromising on the user experience.

Generating and providing the necessary alerts on the mobile devices.

Providing the ability to customize an interface, where a user could put together the necessary features to access the information most relevant to him.

Building an interactive interface, thereby enabling the user to act upon various alerts on interventions.

Software Solution:

Real time access to the relevant data.

Provides the necessary Alerts/Notifications.

Generation of Alerts based on various events such as staffing, census and ...
... acuity.

Ability to act on various Alert/Notifications.

Actions based on workflow defined in the Enterprise database.

Ability to customize the interface, by putting together all the features needed by a specific user, thereby enabling him to access the data relevant to him with minimum user interaction.

Intuitive and rich user interface depicting the usage status of various resources in multiple colors such as red, green and amber.

Ability to locate and direct the necessary resources to the point of activity.

Intuitive MIS Reports and Graphs.

Benefits:

The Blackberry enabled solution provides the healthcare service providers with real time access to demand and capacity information of the facility/department in the hospital, thereby enabling them to manage the demand and capacity of the hospital resources in a much better and efficient manner.

About Blackberry:

RIM’s Blackberry, coupled with Blackberry Enterprise Server (BES), is a complete business mobile phone providing IT managers adequate control to manage these devices, a key factor in Enterprise Mobility. RIM’s continued growth is much ahead of its competitors at 35.7% year after year, as reported by IDC, and 40.8% as reported by Canalys. Though its stronghold is North America, RIM has shown significant improvement internationally.

Email. RIM's BlackBerry utilizes wireless Mail User Agent devices and a BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) which is attached to a traditional e-mail system and is perhaps the feature which almost all enterprises want. RIM's BES has been the preferred solution for managing these devices and for providing secure access to corporate email.

AppWorld. The Blackberry Appworld was launched in April 2009 and has around 3,000 applications. Though this might sound low, the fact that Blackberry allows direct publishing of applications on their devices infers that a lot of applications get deployed on the mobile devices without going to AppWorld. Enterprise apps such as Documents To Go, Empower InstaSpell, eOffice 4.6, Mobile Office Suite and File Manager Pro ensure that enterprises get all that they need.

Security. Its security features include: IBM Lotus Notes Email Encryption Support, and the BlackBerry Signing Authority Tool can help protect access to the functionality and data of third-party applications. Depending on corporate security requirements, BlackBerry smartphones support HTTPS communication via Proxy and End to End mode.

Battery. BlackBerry use a Lithium-ion battery which, after every 30 charges, exhausts 10-15% of its capacity.

About Endeavour Software Technologies:

Endeavour Software Technologies is a niche mobile solutions services company since 2002. The company offers Technology Solutions geared towards buildingEnterprise and Consumer Mobility Solutions for various verticals including Healthcare, Finance and Banking, Manufacturing and Supply Chain, Consumer Oriented Organizations as well as market research, publishing and PR firms.

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