Healthcare workflow analytics

Abstract

Systems and methods that monitor the movement of a patient through the medical treatment process and collect, process, and display various statistics concerning that movement, while also making suggestions that improve patient flow, providing tools to appropriately revise schedules and templates to make future schedules more efficient. Embodiments of the invention treat each patient visit as a multi-stage process and collect information of interest concerning the various stages of the process, such as arrival time, departure time, etc. The collected data may be used to study the treatment process and how it relates to certain individual patients or classes of patients, as well as, e.g., potentially making recommendations to improve the treatment process, modifying future schedules to increase efficiency, making real time optimizations of patient visits, etc.

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