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Recent studies have indicated that workflow impacts almost every performance metric in a hospital. Surprisingly, this includes nurse productivity, ergonomics and safety, quality of care, patient satisfaction, and even nurse satisfaction and retention. Improving the way materials and work flow through a hospital can result in huge savings and provide significant benefits to a healthcare organization.
Most layout design and optimization projects take months to complete and result in sub-optimal designs. Layout-iQ™ was designed to optimize the organization of workspace and workflow. With Layout-iQ™, optimal results can be achieved in less than half the time when compared with traditional engineering methods.
Layout iQ is the first tool designed specifically to optimize the flow of materials and resources through a hospital. Layout-iQ™ optimizes the layout and organization of equipment and resources in a workspace. By minimizing travel distance of nurses and materials through the hospital, a typical Layout-iQ™ project can eliminate up to 50% of travel even after value stream mapping, producing huge benefits to the bottom line.
The Layout-iQ™ interface is designed to capture the information needed to model flow and calculate travel distance in a hospital. The software also includes an easy to use wizard that walks the user through the model building process step-by-step. All the instructions are included in an easy to follow and intuitive user interface that anybody can understand and use.
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