OXFORD, UK - (HealthTech Wire / News) - HealthTech Wire, the industry’s news service, today welcomes new member RealTime Health Ltd., a UK-based supplier of clinical process change and software solutions, which delivers reduced length of stay (LOS) and improved patient flow throughout hospitals. HealthTech Wire readers will now have access to RealTime Health news as it breaks.
- “Sharing our company and product news across the industry enables us to draw attention to considerable patient and financial benefits of reducing length of stay in hospitals”
- RealTime’s unique clinical process change and software solution delivers reduced length of stay and improved patient flow throughout hospitals
- It also ensures patients are clinically fit and can be discharged as quickly as possible, reducing average length of stay
“As a healthcare innovator we are in a strong position to champion the considerable financial and clinical benefits of our technology and innovative methodology for hospitals, patients and the healthcare economy,” says Jim Gabriel, CEO RealTime Health Ltd. “Sharing our company and product news across the industry will enable us to draw attention to considerable patient and financial benefits of reducing length of stay in hospitals.”
The RealTime solution is based on decades of experience in reducing length of stay in hospitals in the US through clinical process improvement. Backed up by a unique software system designed and developed in Oxford, UK, the RealTime solution is specifically designed to reduce the length of stay by improving the discharge planning process and facilitating enhanced collaborative working within the hospital and including relevant outside services. Reducing patient length of stay improves throughput and capacity, reduces healthcare-associated infections and delivers major financial savings.
Across-the-board benefits of reducing LOS
The RealTime methodology benefits patients, medical staff and the healthcare economy by ensuring that patients are clinically fit and able to be discharged as quickly as possible. It presents a clinically-driven process change which has been tested and proven in US hospitals for over 25 years, supported by state-of-the-art software and backed up with RealTime’s experienced UK based clinical process change team.
Within the UK's NHS, freeing up bed days has a wide range of benefits, from taking on more procedures to closing expensive excess ward capacity. There are considerable savings to be had from freeing up bed days, the value of which can be used as a benchmark for performance improvements.
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Source: HealthTech Wire
