Teletracking In Health Care

The article suggests a possible solution to one of the biggest health care organisations management problem, i.e the problem of the waiting period in emergency departments, by using Teletracking methods and how this technology has made a difference in the flow and operation management in health care organisations in USA. With the introduction of Lean methodology concept in health care organisations, many medical centres have been concentrating more on principles and philosophies in serving the patients better by reducing time and money. Teletracking is a newer technology, using real time location systems which uses radiofrequency identification for tracking equipments, patients summaries using EHRs, physicians duties, pharmacy medicines, etc making information accesibilty much easier and thereby saving much of the physicians time in treating patients and thereby reducing patient waiting time in EDs.

In this article the author compared the changes observed with the use of Teletracking system for a duration of three years starting from 2013 in two different multispeciality chain of hospitals in Florida, the first being Health First, which is a fully integrated health system in central Florida with 900 beds distributed across four hospitals. Its flagship hospital is Homes Regional

Accountable care must be introduced at all levels in healthcare organizations, which helps the performance to be more transparent at department and individual levels thereby contributing to the success of the healthcare