1. Increased transport capacity through:
a. Automation of transport requests, dispatching, and progress monitoring, reducing the time to perform these functions;
b. Pre-emptive identification of transport conflicts, avoiding wasted trips;
c. Intelligent rules based dispatching logic that balances proximity and priority, reducing trip durations.
d. Measuring employee efficiency with industrial engineering standards, laying the basis for productivity improvement strategies;
2. Saved clinical services time through:
a. Automating transport requests entered by nursing units and ancillary departments.
b. Providing real-time trip progress information on interface screens located in nursing units and ancillary departments, eliminating the need for phone calls to check progress.
c. For hospitals where nursing unit staff or ancillary staff perform non clinically related transports, these trips can be replaced by the increased capacity of the transport service.
3. Reduced bed turn time by:
a. Giving notice of patient discharges and transfers when the patient is taken from the room rather than waiting for the nursing unit to put through the discharge notice, increasing available bed-days.
4. Enhanced patient visibility by:
a. Providing a cost-effective way to display real-time information about patient location when stationary and patient destination and ETA when in transit.