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STATEWIDE CAPACITY DATA FOR PATIENT CARE COORDINATION
STATEWIDE CAPACITY DATA FOR PATIENT CARE COORDINATION
STATE PROFILE: HAWAII 2023 LAUNCH
The state of Hawaii launched the Hospital Capacity System in November of 2023. Given Hawaii's unique geography, hear from state leaders about the benefit of real-time hospital capacity information.
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Oregon is a model for other states and regions
In March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic struck the United States and put in motion the critical need for accurate and timely data.. It became apparent that the much of the country's health system was going face a significant demand for bed capacity as it responded to the COVID-19 pandemic. Data was critical in the early days the country's response and we had limited insight into total hospital bad capacity and critical resource supply within each state.
Realizing the need to coordinate quickly across the state's hospitals and health systems, a group of health systems in Oregon agreed to standup a real-time bed capacity system using the GE Healthcare "command center" technology as a foundation. There was agreement among this group and the Oregon Capacity System (OCS) was launched. It quickly became a useful tool for providers and the state of Oregon in understanding hospital capacity in real-time by emergency response region. In a couple of months time we had nearly 100% of Oregon's hospitals participating.
Given the early success and the clear need for an enhanced statewide system, using the lessons we have all learned from the pandemic, Apprise Health Insights in partnership with GE, launched a vision for a statewide tool, the first in the country, to develop a collaborative process with shared governance to bring additional data streams a central dashboard for decision making and can be replicated across the country.
The Capacity System, accessible via a gated, secure website, supports near real-time capacity management, providing hospital and regional decision makers with access to up-to-date hospital data on the availability of beds and ventilators as well as COVID-19 census and admission trends.
It supports decision making around patient routing, resource allocation as well as policy setting. The information on the website is updated, on average, every 5 minutes, directly from the hospitals’ EMR and without any need for manual reporting. It is designed to scale easily across multiple regions, states, etc.
Community partners from Multnomah County, Oregon's largest county, is using the system for care coordination.
EMS and ED physicians across the state leverage one system for statewide notifications, divert and reroute for patient care
Hear from the Senior Associate CMO for OHSU, Dr. Matthias Merkel, about the creation and use of the Oregon Capacity System to date.
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AVAILABLE FUNDING
For states interested in the hospital capacity system, funding may be available to cover your costs of the system. To learn more, please reach out to the team below.
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