CapPlan is a comprehensive capacity planning solution that tackles and resolves patient flow issues from admission to discharge. It delivers superb organisation-wide efficiency, confident capacity forecasting, scenario planning and a smoother patient journey resulting in cost savings and the opportunity to increase revenue – you can test CapPlan in a cost-effective project in order to experience the benefits for yourself.
Many hospital staff, including clinicians and managers, face chronic bed management issues and remain unconvinced that the solutions currently available will solve their problems.
Emendo Ltd. recognise that implementing CapPlan is a major decision with hospital-wide implications around expenditure, training and change management. Therefore, we offer a CapPlan Discovery project which provides you with the opportunity to pilot our solution.
Discovery is a short but comprehensive exercise which demonstrates the capabilities of CapPlan by using the hospital’s own historical data, highlighting the potential savings and benefits that could be realised by implementing the full CapPlan system.
CapPlan is a consulting and software solution that matches hospital staffing and resources to patient activity. The consulting element is provided by practitioners experienced in delivering healthcare solutions, who understand central government and NHS policy, and who already work with Acute Trusts.
The software element has been specifically designed, tested and proven to identify, analyse and resolve capacity planning issues in hospitals. Crucially, it provides real-time information to managers and clinicians regarding inpatient status, combined with highly accurate forecasting of future requirements. The data needed to plan and allocate resources for next week, next month and next year is both available and reliable. Consequently, CapPlan allows you to:
A Discovery project takes eight weeks from receipt of your data and is a combination of consultation meetings, data analysis and recommendations. We meet with key stakeholders to:
Admissions, Discharges and Transfers data supplied by the hospital and customised to its preferred set-up, is analysed in a live demonstration of CapPlan’s software capabilities. For example, analysis may focus on key patient flow trends in relation to specific congestion points in patient journeys.
We provide an Evaluation and Opportunities Report and present our final data analysis along with our recommendations. These could include:
From our experience, the key factor that makes Discovery successful is the involvement of some of your key resources throughout the project, as they ensure that the needs and patient flow aims of your hospital are understood. In particular, the Operational and Service Improvement teams with senior management sponsorship, and the involvement of your Information Management & Technology team to assist with historical data extraction.
Discovery provides a report of initiatives and recommendations enabling you to realise savings and improvements to patient flow immediately. It also gives you the basis to build a business case for full CapPlan Implementation, and by using the data already gathered, collated and analysed, you will have the opportunity to reduce the time it would otherwise take. To support a full implementation proposal you will also have:
If you would like to know more about CapPlan or put our Discovery projects to the test, please call +64 3 379 6662 or click here to contact us online