In many ways, the BMD is similar to an air traffic control tower. Like a real air traffic control
tower, this application is real-time and mission-critical. It must handle scheduled and
emergency events. The system assists with the clinical and business decision processes
that occur when a patient needs to be assigned to a specific bed location. Collectively, this
system provides organizations with an array of enabling technologies to:
● Schedule/reserve/request patient bed assignments
● Assign and transfer patients from the emergency department and/or other clinical areas
such as intensive care units, medical/surgical units, operating rooms, or post-anesthesia
care units.
● Reduce and eliminate dependency on phone calls to communicate patient and bed
requirements
● Reduce and eliminate paper processes to manage varying census levels
● Apply Statistical Process Control (SPC) and “Six Sigma” methodologies to manage
occupancy and patient diversion
● Provide administrators, managers, and caregivers with accurate and on-demand reports
and automatic alerts via pagers, e-mail, phone, and intelligent software agents.