Exam Room Utilization Benchmarks

For hospital owned practices specifically that number goes down to an average of 17 minutes.

Exam room utilization benchmarks.

Currently the analytics application delivers a dashboard of integrated data views including appointment statistics scheduling utilization templates and open encounters. For example a community hospital client of cannondesign realized that increasing the utilization of their cardiology clinic exam rooms. With our benchmark model clinic client this exam room configuration reduced downtime and eliminated physician interruptions. The dashboard is expanding to include mu metrics third next available appointment referrals orders exam room utilization and patient flow figure 1.

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Practices report that wait times have improved by five minutes from last year down to an average of 20 minutes total between the waiting area and the exam room. Determining baseline measures of current capacity and utilization hospitals can apply benchmarks for market demand financial impact labor productivity facility and. Against lowering or raising clinic room utilization benchmarks can establish a range of possible scenarios. This model strikes a balance between integrating physicians into the care team areas and creating a private and secure environment so that patient cases can be discussed openly without confidentiality concerns.