Hospitech
Imagine the Apollo mission to the moon without ‘mission control’. It would have been a catastrophic failure. Yet most hospitals are run without a data command centre. Thankfully that’s starting to change. After GE installed an integrated data control centre at Maryland’s John Hopkins Hospital in 2016, access for very sick patients improved by 78% over 18 months and waiting time for emergencies fell by 35%, even while inpatient occupancy increased 8%. Now the UK’s Bradford Royal Infirmary is getting its own mission control centre, with real-time data on patient flow, ambulance arrivals and more. Data can save lives.
— Wayne Visser
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