- First-of-its-kind tool actively manages hospital data,
providing near real-time occupancy information that enables
hospitals to maximize resources
- Saved participating hospitals 45,000 hours of labor, amounting
to $3 million dollars, by eliminating the need for manual entry of
capacity data
- Puts actionable data in the hands of decision-makers so that
statewide capacity can be optimized, allowing hospitals to mitigate
resource constraints collaboratively
- Financial support provided by U.S. Department of Health &
Human Services
Oregon is the first state in the U.S. to launch a new statewide
command center software solution for hospital capacity and critical
resource management developed by GE Healthcare. With a federal
grant provided by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
(HHS), Apprise Health Insights will lead the deployment of this
technology platform, the Oregon Capacity System (OCS), to every
hospital in the state of Oregon by Summer 2022.
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The COVID-19 crisis has exposed the need for better capacity
management across hospitals – a need real-time data for bed
availability can address. Hospitals struggle during the pandemic as
patient surges, made worse by natural disasters such as hurricanes
and wildfires, strain the capacity of ICUs and ERs across the
country. Oregon, like many other states, is challenged to meet this
soaring demand. As the state continues to navigate the Delta wave,
on September 28, the Oregon Health Authority reported only 53
available adult ICU beds out of 645 in the state.1
“Over the past two years, the Oregon Capacity System has
provided an invaluable bird’s eye view of capacity across the
state, helping us give timely care to our patients despite the
strain the pandemic has placed on our resources. I expect the need
will be even greater in the coming months as vaccination rates in
rural Oregon remain low,” said Helene Anderson, Regional Director
of Capacity & Throughput, Providence. “Yet despite Oregon being
one of the states with the lowest ratio of beds per capita, this
system has given us such a clear and accurate view of capacity
across hospitals that we’ve been able to maximize resources and
even bring in patients from out-of-state. Having shared visibility
has promoted collaboration at the state level to navigate capacity
constraints and overcome challenges to patient flow to help
patients get the care they need when they need it.”
Prior to the project that began in March 2020, hospitals in
Oregon, like every other state, tracked and reported capacity
information manually, retroactively, and individually, resulting in
outdated reports and potentially week-old data. Using GE
Healthcare’s command center software, Oregon’s Statewide Capacity
System is tracking 7,368 beds and approximately 800 ventilators
across 60 hospitals, while processing 4.2 million data points each
day, removing the need to manually track and enter capacity
information. To date the system has saved participating hospitals
45,000 hours of labor, which amounts to roughly 3 million dollars
of productivity, and is expected to save even more time as further
automation reduces the burden of manual reporting.
Access to near-time bed availability data helps health systems
across the state make well-informed timely decisions about staffing
and resource utilization and achieve the goal of high-quality
patient care for the residents of Oregon.
“GE Healthcare Command Centers help health systems to
orchestrate patient care, from the bedside to the department and
the health system. This work extends that impact statewide with a
broader set of automated real time data than ever before. This is
important to coordinate access and resources through COVID and will
be important for getting patients the care they need long after the
pandemic,” said Jeff Terry, CEO of Clinical Command Centers, GE
Healthcare.
Apprise Health Insights and GE Healthcare are expanding the
system beyond tracking current beds and ventilators only, to track
and process more than five million data points per day, including
acute, pediatric, ICU, specialty, rehab and psych bed availability
data as well as PPE, Emergency Department and Extracorporeal
membrane oxygenation (ECMO) availability. This information will be
pulled directly from the electronic medical records (EMR) of every
hospital in Oregon and fed into the Oregon State Capacity System,
all fully automated in near real-time while ensuring patient
privacy is appropriately protected. Information will then be made
available to all participating organizations via a website which is
easily accessible from any device or projected on a screen and
refreshed every five minutes. By having access to capacity data in
near real-time, hospital staff can expedite and escalate transfers
to the nearest locations with available beds, getting patients the
care when and where they need it and avoiding delays in bed
assignment and care initiation.
“We are proud to lead this effort that will give every hospital
across the state access to more accurate information on hospital
capacity and critical resources to better serve their patients,”
said Andy Van Pelt, CEO of Apprise Health Insights. “Born out of
the need for real-time information in response to the COVID-19
pandemic, this type of centralized platform can aggregate and
surface complex data to front-line care providers.”
Apprise Health Insights will lead the operation of the system
leveraging GE Healthcare command center software. A governance
group made up of hospital and healthcare system leadership, with
both technical and operational expertise, advisors from other
stakeholders will provide overall system management and
oversight.
“As the COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated, health care systems
must be nimble and ready to provide appropriate care in
resource-constrained circumstances, and doing so requires
continuous information and situational awareness,” said HHS
National Healthcare Preparedness Programs Branch Deputy Director
Jennifer Hannah. “That is why the HHS Office of the Assistant
Secretary for Preparedness and Response is supporting the
development of tools that provide valuable statewide insight into
hospital capacity and critical resource monitoring.”
About Apprise:
Apprise Health Insights is the most reliable and complete source
of hospital data in Oregon. As the data subsidiary of the Oregon
Association of Hospitals and Health Systems (OAHHS), Apprise staff
have gathered and analyzed data about Oregon hospitals and health
systems since 1985. We strive to provide data, tools, and expertise
to help hospitals understand the healthcare landscape in the
Pacific Northwest. For more information on OCS
www.oregoncapacity.com and for Apprise
www.apprisehealthinsights.com. Follow us on Twitter.
About GE Healthcare:
GE Healthcare is the $18 billion healthcare business of GE
(NYSE: GE). As a leading global medical technology, pharmaceutical
diagnostics and digital solutions innovator, GE Healthcare enables
clinicians to make faster, more informed decisions through
intelligent devices, data analytics, applications and services,
supported by its Edison intelligence platform. With over 100 years
of healthcare industry experience and around 47,000 employees
globally, the company operates at the center of an ecosystem
working toward precision health, digitizing healthcare, helping
drive productivity and improve outcomes for patients, providers,
health systems and researchers around the world.
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