Infusion Scheduling
Cancer centers are optimizing their infusion chairs to provide more patients with the life-saving treatment they need sooner, while also maintaining a more even and balanced patient flow for their staff.
Workload-Based Nurse Assignment
Reducing midday overflow facilitates predictable workdays for nurses so they’re not asked to skip lunch breaks to care for patients. Real-time patient acuity information from the Epic EHR helps with distributing complex cases fairly among nurses.
Workload-Based Nurse Assignment
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Automated & Fine-Tuned Chair Schedules
Automatically generate and adjust the daily schedule based on historical demand and current resource capacity. Appointments are consolidated so that you can make the best use of your available chairs and staff. When patients have multiple same-day services, the system will automatically optimize the itinerary to minimize their wait time.
Automated & Fine-Tuned Chair Schedules
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Specialized Analytics for Infusion Center Management
Based on data from your system, identify factors limiting your chair utilization and collaborate on plans to address them. We turn on executive and operational dashboards so that you can track your progress and give your team actionable data to anticipate and address future issues before they affect performance.
Specialized Analytics for Infusion Center Management
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The first 150+ organizations live with the template generator for infusion schedule optimization have seen, on average:
5%
visit volume increase
$65K
increase in gross revenue per chair, per month
14%
decrease in median patient wait time
More Efficient Scheduling, Happier Nurses and Patients at Infusion Clinics
Orlando Health infusion clinics achieved a 32% reduction in patient wait times by optimizing scheduling templates using the infusion scheduling template generator.
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“We’re Not Playing Tetris Anymore”: Efficient Scheduling for Infusion Centers
Infusion clinics maximized capacity to increase patient volume by up to 20%, increase gross income by up to 15%, and reduce patient wait times by up to 41% using a new infusion template generator.
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Cool Stuff Now: Infusion Scheduling
By optimizing schedules using past data and staffing patterns, Epic software helps maximize chair usage, reduce waiting times, and balance workloads for nurses.
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Automating Schedule Creation Improves Access and Increases Revenue in Infusion Centers
Within three months, patient wait times at UNC’s infusion centers decreased by 63%, visit volume increased by 529 visits compared to the previous three months, and revenue went up by more than 8%.
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