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Florida Hospital Becomes Latest Provider to Build AI Command Center
Across the nation, hospitals and healthcare systems are developing command centers to improve the coordination of care for patients, families, and staff. These centers, built in partnership with GE Healthcare Partners, function like NASA’s mission control and rely on artificial intelligence to transform clinical operations.
“Command Center staff using advanced analytics in a purpose-built space will help caregivers help patients, all the time. The combination of human and artificial intelligence is what’s so powerful,” said Jeff Terry, CEO of Command Centers for GE Healthcare.
Florida Hospital, which stretches across the state with 26 hospitals and more than 4,600 patient beds, is the latest provider to embrace the command center concept. It will use the command center to orchestrate patient care at nine hospital campuses in Orange, Seminole, and Osceola counties.
“Our goal is to improve the patient experience, enabling caregivers to spend more time with their patients while making care decisions more easily and quickly,” said Daryl Tol, president & CEO of Florida Hospital and Adventist Health System’s Central Florida Division.
The high-tech command center will use predictive analytics to help hospital staff working to deliver quality, safe, and optimized clinical operations. Scheduled to open in 2019, it will be the largest healthcare command center in terms of square footage supporting the largest number of beds and hospital campuses. It will oversee more than 2 million patient visits annually.
The command center features a “Wall of Analytics” that leverages existing IT systems and data from multiple systems. Using AI algorithms, it crunches data to identify the “needle in the haystack” so staff can prioritize patient-care activities and discharges, make short-term staffing decisions, and mitigate potential bottlenecks before they occur.
According to GE Healthcare, Command-center technology has also been shown to reduce wait times, expediting needed patient care. And by using near real-time data, providers can streamline their processes in time-sensitive clinical situations.
Other systems with command centers include Tampa General Hospital in Tampa, Fla. (pictured above), Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, and Humber River Hospital in Toronto.
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