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    Performance Improvement

    Logistics Center

    Centralize hospital operations for effective and efficient patient throughput.

    Cerner’s recommendation for managing hospital operations is the centralized Logistics Center. Cerner’s Logistics Center culminates people, processes, and technology into a single centralized physical space to execute collaborative decision-making and workflows facilitating the improvement of patient throughput. This approach focuses on what is best for patients — aligning the right patient with the right caregiver, in the right place, at the right time.

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    The Logistics Center centralizes operational solutions that provide situational awareness and trigger the logistics team to take immediate action when needed. Such solutions are Cerner’s Capacity Management Solution Suite, the Cerner Clairvia Solution suite, and Location Awareness technology.

    Southwest General Health Center accelerates patient journeys with capacity management solutions

    The days of using paper to track a patient’s journey through the hospital are over at Cerner ITWorksSM client Southwest General Health Center in Middleburg Heights, Ohio. With CareAware Patient Flow® andCareAware Tracking™, hospital staff members are working more efficiently and saving time for both themselves and their patients. “It’s all about the right care, the right time, the right place,” said Lori Cihon, director of nursing, inpatient services. “We’re getting the patients in the right place sooner so their care can start faster.”

    Southwest General Health Center accelerates patient journeys with capacity management solutions

    Augusta University Health

    Augusta University Health uses technology and centralized logistics to improve patient flow, communications and care

    Before its new command center came online, Augusta University Health (AU Health) didn’t have a way to track capacity, nursing resources or collaborate on operations. That left patients and staff frustrated. “The flow was around people, not processes,” said VP and CNO Laura Brower, MSN, RN. “There were times patients were held in the emergency department for two to three days and would be discharged without being assigned an inpatient bed.”

    Augusta University Health uses technology and centralized logistics to improve patient flow, communications and care

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    Competitive Advantage Statistic

    CareAware Patient Flow and Clairvia, along with the new command center, helped AU Health save $3.37 million from December 2015 to June 2016

    Client Quote

    “We can now see where our issues are very clearly. We can see what is coming in and how to deploy resources based on what to expect.”
    — Billy Cleveland, capacity manager, Augusta Health

    Related Offerings

    Capacity Management

    Cerner’s Capacity Management solutions provide transparency and alignment of assets (staff, patients and equipment) at the right time and right place to improve patient throughput, efficiency, productivity, and outcomes.

    Workforce Management

    Better patient outcomes occur when you have the right care giver, in the right place, at the right time. Cerner delivers automated and intelligent workforce management solutions for health care organizations to provide the best care at the lowest cost.