Cutting Edge Healthcare Simulation Software
Scenario generator is a software tool specifically designed to allow simulation of whole health and social care systems.
Customer Case Studies
Healthcare Trends and Challenges
Patient flow and the reduction of wait times is a subject of great discussion across all healthcare providers. The concept of patient flow underpins many wait time improvement techniques currently being implemented by healthcare providers across the industry. Without the ability to implement effective patient flow improvement solutions, healthcare providers will struggle to reduce wait times and meet strategic goals.
So while healthcare providers have generally increased their efficiency to improve patient flow through programs such as ED-PIP and LEAN, we are left with increasing demand (volume & acuity) and a need for interactive care pathway or delivery of care solutions to measure impacts on patient flow and capacity management. Take for example an emergency room; patient flow through an ER is complex with several changes in the pathway being produced by many decisions made at various points. Healthcare delivery improvement techniques such as LEAN allow providers to improve system by reducing waste in the process, but there are many possible solutions that can only be validated by implementation. LEAN has provided healthcare improvement specialists to get at the low hanging fruit.
Healthcare providers are turning to innovative technologies such as patient flow simulation in order to identify bottlenecks and test LEAN and more radical solutions before actually implementing them. By adding simulation to LEAN studies, providers can measure outcomes (with numbers) before they implement the changes. Simulation can then act as a LEANplus by allowing providers to load balance the system and try more radical solutions.
Patient Flow Solutions
Radical thinking and the use of patient flow simulation has greatly improved the quality and efficiency of wait time reduction for healthcare providers across the globe. Patient flow simulation allows you to immediately see the benefits of process changes with real time data and graphical visualizations.
- Measure Strategies: Use your hospital data to model future outcomes of strategies / care pathways & capacity-matching, flow rates, and wait times
- Demonstrate: Visualize flow patterns and outcomes including delays & bottlenecks with real variability – Simulate each activity.
- Predict: Capacity planning for staff, space, equipment, wait times & effects on systems. Predict future bottlenecks caused by changes in delivery.
Learn more about how our clients are benefiting from Visual8 patient flow solutions.
