Care Logistics

CareEdge™ is a digital health platform offered by Care Logistics that aims to optimize operations and achieve positive outcomes for hospitals and health systems. According to the vendor, the platform provides retrospective analysis, real-time insights, and predictive forecasting to support effective decision-making and address operational inefficiencies. CareEdge™ is designed to cater to hospitals and health systems of all sizes, offering tailored solutions to meet the unique needs of each organization.

Key Features

Root Cause Analysis: Care Logistics conducts in-depth root cause analysis to identify the underlying causes of challenges faced by hospitals and health systems. This approach enables organizations to address the root causes and drive continuous improvement, as claimed by the vendor.

Change Management Mastery: Care Logistics specializes in change management, providing expertise and guidance to navigate the complexities of change effectively. The vendor states that they ensure healthcare organizations are not only prepared for change but also equipped to sustain it.

Domestic Focus: Care Logistics is dedicated to helping US hospitals and health systems achieve their strategic and operational goals. They focus on understanding and addressing the unique needs and challenges faced by healthcare organizations in the United States, according to the vendor.

Holistic Approach: Care Logistics takes a holistic approach to their solutions, considering the entire organization when making recommendations. They aim to avoid hyper-focusing on specific departments or metrics, recognizing the importance of system-wide harmony, as claimed by the vendor.

Consistency Matters: Care Logistics has a proven track record of consistently helping hospitals and health systems overcome their operational challenges for over 15 years. According to the vendor, they deliver results and ensure long-term success.

Patient Throughput & Progression: CareEdge™ aims to improve the patient journey by implementing throughput and progression solutions. It defines patient progression as the advancement of hospitalized patients through required care events, actions, and processes to achieve a health status where they can safely transition to a lower level of care. The vendor claims that this solution helps avoid issues with patient flow and prevent bottlenecks by ensuring patients move through care at the appropriate rate.

Resource Management: CareEdge™ provides a foundation for smart, efficient, and profitable resource management. It optimizes patient scheduling and unit and bed placement based on projected bed and staffing availability. The platform connects nursing units and service areas to capacity management systems for real-time patient status tracking. The vendor states that it helps hospitals align care teams to length of stay targets, reliably progress patients from admission to discharge, and overcome barriers to patient progression.

Hospital Command Centers: CareEdge™ acts as a central hub for hospitals or healthcare systems, centralizing information and fostering cross-departmental communication. The platform empowers hospitals with real-time data analytics and predictive capabilities for informed decision-making. According to the vendor, it streamlines operational workflows, improves patient throughput, bed capacity, operating room efficiency, and care delivery standardization.

Consulting Services: Care Logistics offers targeted and high-impact solutions to address operational challenges in healthcare facilities. They utilize Lean Six Sigma methodologies to identify and mitigate operational bottlenecks and departmental inefficiencies. Their consulting services focus on patient progression bottlenecks, diagnostic delays, discharge processes, patient transport delays, emergency department boarding, and coordination in surgical and procedural departments. Additionally, they provide strategic consulting services to align healthcare organizations, improve staff engagement and satisfaction, and operationalize hospital strategies, according to the vendor.