Hospital saves with bedside point-of-care system.
Do bedside and point-of-care systems actually deliver on their promise of reducing operating expenses while helping improve the overall quality of healthcare? And how does a healthcare facility quantify associated "productivity" improvements to prove cost savings? These are two critical issues that healthcare providers face in implementing a bedside or point-of-care (POC) system. Barnes Hospital, St. Louis, is a 1,000 bed member facility of the Barnes-Jewish Inc./Christian Health Services integrated health system. Barnes Hospital has indeed seen significant cost savings as a result of a POC project.
Barnes-Jewish, Inc., St. Louis.
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D017046:Cost Savings / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D003625:Data Collection; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational / Q000191:economics; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006746:Hospital Bed Capacity, 500 and over; D006751:Hospital Information Systems / Q000191:economics* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D007362:Intensive Care Units / Q000191:economics*; D008923:Missouri; D009738:Nursing Service, Hospital / Q000191:economics; D010362:Patients' Rooms