The Real Time HealthCare Podcast Jeff Terry @ GE HealthCare Command Center

As an experienced charge nurse for a fast-paced Medicine unit with complex, high-acuity patients, Vicky Martin and her team have no time to waste. They’re driven by the desire to improve patients’ lives and leave their shift knowing they’ve made a difference. That compassion is core to Nova Scotia Health Authority’s mission to work together to achieve excellence in health, healing, and learning.
GE HealthCare Command Center technology is supporting clinicians as they deliver on that mission. In the latest episode of the Real Time HealthCare podcast, Vicky shares how their C3 Care Coordination Centre is helping streamline key processes, improve care coordination, and save time in her unit and across the enterprise.

We must sustain our caregivers if we’re going to achieve our other sustainability goals. See how leading health systems are using new approaches to take on skyrocketing labor costs and caregiver burnout in this episode of the Real Time Healthcare podcast.Join us as Jeff Terry shares how GE HealthCare Command Centers use data from EMRs, devices and more to generate insights that boost efficiencies, increase capacity, and decrease patient wait times – while sustaining caregivers.

Seth Sternberg and his team at Honor are committed to changing the aging experience. For them, that starts with caring for the people who provide care for older adults – the Care Pros. Listen as Seth explains how they use technology to respect and support home health caregivers. It’s a strategy that works -- Honor is consistently retaining employees for years in an industry with notoriously high turnover rates.

Matthew Mawby is a nurse and co-founder of StaffHealth, and he's working to take the hassle out of nurse staffing. Jeff and Matthew discuss the current state of the nurse staffing crisis. We may be getting close to turning the corner. But hospitals are still struggling to fill open shifts. Listen in as they share how hospitals are using innovative technology and processes to address staffing shortages.

As the Regional Director of Capacity and Throughput for the Providence Health System in Oregon, Helene Anderson has seen firsthand how COVID patient surges have challenged health systems across the country. The development of the Providence Logistics Center in 2018 gave them a head start on fully leveraging their resources and optimizing capacity during the pandemic.
Built with three key pillars -- process, behavior, technology -- the Providence Logistics Center enables their eight hospitals to operate as a single system. With the right workflows and technology in place, key stakeholders across the system have visibility to bed availability as well as the ability to prioritize where patients should go and streamline transfer logistics. In addition, they can leverage all available resources, such as tele-health, tele-ICU, and tele-hospitalists, to fulfill their mission of serving their community and caring for as many patients as possible, especially the poor and vulnerable.
For Providence Health, managing COVID resource demands goes a step further. Providence Health is part of Oregon’s statewide capacity management system. As COVID takes capacity out of an already strained healthcare system, the Orego

Leveraging technology already in place at Oregon Science & Health University, Apprise Health Insights partnered with GE HealthCare to launch an automated, near real-time capacity management system in Oregon.
That has allowed hospitals throughout the state to manage COVID-19 patient surges and other natural disasters collaboratively. Discover how the new system was stood up with 80% of Oregon hospitals in just 2-3 weeks, and is now in place at every hospital in the state.
Apprise’s CEO Andy Van Pelt also shares how driving consensus across the state’s hospital association members is creating more possibilities to use the system to improve healthcare delivery for all of Oregon.