Treat ER Patients Faster with Package Tracking SoftwareThis Friday, June 21st marks the first day of summer, meaning that the height of cold and allergy season is now behind us. But this doesn’t mean that your healthcare facility is about to slow down. In fact summer is the busiest season for ER visits, with 27% of annual activity occurring during this period. How can this be if sickness is generally curbed in these warmer months? People spend more time outdoors and in the water during the summer, increasing their risk for severe sunburns, sun poisoning and accidents by the pool, lake or ocean. Are you ready to treat the rising number of patients in your ER this summer?

Improving Patient Care in the ER

When it comes to patient care in the ER, timing is everything. In 2010, only 25% of patients waited for less than 15 minutes to see a doctor or nurse practitioner in the ER, with 42% waiting between 15 and 59 minutes and 33% waiting for an hour or more. Decreasing this wait time is paramount to improving patient care. Reducing the time spent with each patient is not an option, as you must ensure that they are thoroughly examined to minimize the chances of repeat visits. So how to you cut down your time without having a negative impact on patient care? Eliminate time spent on mindless tasks, such as logging and looking for shipments of medicine and supplies.

Eliminating Mindless Tasks

Mindless tasks are those time consuming items that are necessary to treat patients yet reduce the actual time you can spend examining them. These tasks include finding patient charts, logging in packages, and tracking down medications. Technology can help you reduce your time spent on these duties almost to zero. Take package tracking software for instance.

Our efficient package tracking system allows you to log packages four to ten times faster than hand logging. All the time you spent writing down the tracking number, time received, sender, and additional information can now be done in seconds with the scan of the preexisting package barcode. This time can now be spent improving patient care. The nurses will have more time to assess the patients in the waiting room to ensure that the most critical cases are seen first and the doctors will have more time to examine patients.

Additionally, time spent locating shipments of medications and supplies can be cut down dramatically as well. With our package tracking software’s waypoints system you can quickly document the movement of each package with the scan of the barcode. These items can later be located in seconds by simply logging into the package tracking system and searching for the tracking number. Gone are the days of scouring the hand log or running from store room to store room. Doctors will now have the items that they need to treat their patients in a matter of moments, allowing them to help more patients get better, faster!

Don’t let your summer patients sit in your waiting room for longer than absolutely necessary. Implement our package tracking system today. Contact us for a demo to see how our package tracking software can boost efficiency in your ER!

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