RealTime is a combination of clinical process change and cutting edge software. Unlike conventional bed management systems, RealTime can be inserted easily into existing infrastructure to provide a web-based, point-and-click, simple to use set of graphical tools and views that allow the discharge process to be managed across multiple sites in real time, against agreed key performance indicators.

Financial improvement within hospitals depends on a number of factors, including improvements in the day to day management of hospitalised patients and the development of a clinical culture that is supportive of efficient care delivery representing key leverage points.

Hospitals do not know in real time where their patients are ‘at a glance’, either in terms of their physical location or their position on a care pathway, en route to discharge. Hospitals equally do not know reliably in real time which resources are available by category for new admissions and transfers. This leads to daily confusion that reduces throughput and creates significant inefficiencies in management of the patient journey through the hospital.

RealTime helps hospitals solve three key problems:

The graph above shows a 300 bed hospital in the US for patients aged over 65 across all diagnoses.   Following the implementation of RealTime:

The Average Length of Stay (ALOS) was reduced from an average of 6.7 days to 4.8 days

Measurements of key quality performance criteria for pneumonia, heart failure and heart attack improved by a minimum of 20%

Both readmission rates and mortality rates for key diagnoses decreased

Released efficiency savings of $25M in cumulative savings to invest in new equipment and facilities improvements.