Throughline
Every bed, discharge, and bottleneck on one live board, so the hospital can see where capacity is headed before it runs out.
The problem
A hospital ran near full most days, but capacity lived on whiteboards and phone calls. By the time a unit knew it was tight, the emergency department was already boarding patients with nowhere to send them.
Discharges that could have happened in the morning slipped to late afternoon, so beds turned over hours after the demand for them had peaked. No one had a forward view of the day.
What we built
Throughline reads admissions, discharges, and bed status as they happen, predicts when beds will free up, and shows the barriers holding patients in place. Charge nurses and the capacity team open a board that already knows where the day is going.
- •Live house-wide board of occupancy, available beds, and emergency department boarding
- •Predicted discharges by hour, with the open barrier holding each one
- •Ranked discharge worklist so the team can clear beds before the afternoon peak
- •Forecast of the capacity shortfall before it happens, not after
- •Flow analytics on length of stay, time to bed, and where hours are lost
A closer look
How it works
The system predicts which patients are likely to leave and when, surfaces the barrier behind each one, and forecasts the gap between beds needed and beds available across the day.
AI does the prediction and ranking. The capacity team runs the huddle and makes the calls. The board reflects what they decide, so the plan and the floor stay in sync.
The outcome
The team sees a capacity crunch coming with hours to act instead of minutes.
Discharges that can happen early do, so beds turn over when they are needed.
Leadership has one honest view of the hospital instead of a dozen whiteboards.
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