Infection Control - Patient Flow Manager

IC-PFM Software Overview

IC-PFM software uses a two tiered approach specifically designed to eliminate delays and bottlenecks that cause excessive use of staff time and unnecessary infection exposure patient days.

IC-PFM is an “umbrella application” using existing hospital data, to plan each patient’s stay from “check-in to check-out”.

IC-PFM frees up beds allowing for more accelerated admittance of patients and significantly reducing wait times. The overall efficiencies gained and subsequent cost savings, provides hospitals with a much needed infection cost reduction capacity improvement to operate within budgets while maintaining high levels of patient care. IC-PFM’s ease of use and convenience simplifies work and saves significant time for hospital staff to improve patient safety and reduce costs as compared to traditional patient management methods.

Supply Chain Optimizer

SCO incorporates five major components to provide analysis of Stock Keeping Units (SKU) and the recommendation of the most cost efficient Flow Method:

• Load Staging Database
• Work Unit Management
• “What If” Flow Calculator
• Flow Calculator
• SCO Designer

The actual analysis is based on the following criteria:

• SKU Importance: The relative importance of the SKU to the success of the company strategy.
• Vendor Reliability: The relative supplier performance in providing product to meet the company strategy.
• Logistics Capability: The ability for logistics to respond to Flow Method recommendations.

Together the combination of data, formulas, constants and methods provides the analyst with the resources to make Flow Method decisions based on sound Supply Chain principles.