Access Bed Control Description
Effective hospital bed management requires real time patient and bed visibility as well as coordination between staff groups. These processes can be tedious and could result in a loss of hundreds of bed days each year if they are not automated, as many medium-sized hospitals do. Access Bed Control (ABC), provides a single, updated portal for hospital staff to manage all bed requirements. Access Bed Control eliminates the need for multiple departments to call each other. It contains all the information that the patient access staff and admitting departments need to make the right placement decisions. Your hospital information system will collect patient clinical characteristics and bed requirements. These can also be entered manually. These include information such as diagnosis, medical service and level of care. This system is applicable to all admissions, pre-admits, and transfers.