The Healthcare Capacity System (HCS) is a groundbreaking program that captures and shares real-time data on bed capacity trends, peak occupancy rates, divert status, and other critical metrics across a state or region. By aggregating data from hospitals statewide into one centralized place, HCS provides health care providers and administrators with crucial information, enabling them to make day-to-day, data-driven decisions with the patient at the center.
Getting started with HCS is easy, thanks to our intuitive and user-friendly tool. Our dedicated team will provide you with comprehensive demos and ongoing support to ensure a smooth adoption process. Here’s a quick overview of how HCS works:
Data is securely and automatically sent from the electronic health records (EHR) of every participating hospital, feeding into a centralized system.
All data feeds are fully automated, closely monitored, and completely secure.
The HCS website provides easy access to valuable information for all participating organizations, accessible from any web-enabled device.
Dive into data at various levels of granularity, from a broad state-level overview to specific regions, hospital systems, and even individual units within hospitals.
HCS has proven to be a valuable tool for states, streamlining communication across frontline care providers, hospital administration, and other sectors. Its implementation has provided users with real-time data on bed capacity and fostered a strong forum for emergency medical services (EMS) and hospital officials to optimize operating procedures, resulting in improved patient transfer times and delivery of care.
In addition to facilitating communication and collaboration, HCS features a customizable banner notification that enhances statewide visibility of critical information. By utilizing this banner, states can effectively communicate emergency alerts, disaster events, and operational disruptions to all participating hospitals and relevant stakeholders in real time.
HCS offers optional add-on modules that allows users to broaden the variety of data tracked within the system.
This module provides detailed information on acute care behavioral health beds available in a community. The system also displays the number of transfer requests and waitlisted patients for each facility.
This module automates the tracking of ‘avoidable days’ for each facility. This data set helps identify patients who are medically ready for discharge but are experiencing administrative delays in the process.
Expected to be released in 2025, this module will display automated unit capacity information alongside boarding and avoidable days data in the post-acute setting.
Transform how your state’s health care system coordinates and communicates critical data. Contact us today to learn more about implementing HCS.