State-of-the-art bed tracking leads to shorter ED waits and faster turn-arounds

July 01, 2008

At New York Methodist Hospital (NYM), an uncoordinated system for bed turnover at patient discharge caused overcrowding in the emergency department (ED) and became a serious issue. Administrators believed that an electronic bed-tracking system would help solve many of these challenges. To solve its challenges, NYM designed a set of orders within the its Cerner Millennium system that automated the bed-turnover process. Read more about the bed-tracking system by downloading this Health Management Technology article.