New Hospital Operating System solution from StatCom launched

Aug 31 2009

StatCom, a developer of innovative healthcare software, announced today availability of its Hospital Operating System™ solution, a comprehensive patient throughput solution. The hospital-wide operating system was developed to enable hospitals to achieve maximum operational performance and substantial reductions in Average Length of Stay (ALOS), while greatly enhancing the patient and staff experience. Actions across the hospital are prioritized, allowing patients to flow at their best possible rate with respect to service, quality, safety and resource consumption.

By optimizing the whole facility, StatCom helps hospitals achieve a significant competitive advantage by increasing bed turns, accelerating discharges and reducing diverts and delayed cases—directly impacting healthcare costs. The majority of hospitals have clinical and financial systems, as well as departmental solutions, but they do not have an operating system that is able to track and manage all cross-vertical patient flow logistics in real-time.

“The StatCom solution is a huge step forward in helping Mercy Health Partners (MHP) facilities, such as Mercy St. Vincent Medical Center, improve patient flow and reduce inherent delays in the patient care process,” said Samantha M. Platzke, senior vice president and chief financial and transformation officer with MHP. “Mercy St. Vincent has reduced their average length of stay by 14% and their direct expenses by $8.6 million in just 12 months.”

StatCom’s Hospital Operating System solution enables hospitals to orchestrate cross-departmental flow for all patients simultaneously and manage the unplanned variables in daily resource availability and patient census. This represents a shift in thinking from:

• Silo driven data to hospital-wide information on patient flow across verticals
• Optimizing parts to optimizing the whole
• Anecdote and opinion to effective fact based decisions
• Low coordination and collaboration to orchestrated care execution
• Uncertain service delivery to more predictable service performance

“Our continued growth, despite the economic climate, emphasizes the need that hospitals have to maximize existing capacity and resources by being more efficient,” said Ben Sawyer, executive vice president Client Services for StatCom. “Our customers needed a dramatic increase in efficiency that existing bed management offerings can’t provide. We designed the StatCom solution to deliver ‘game changing’ reductions in length of stay by substantially increasing the efficiency of patient flow, systems and information.”