BY MARY FINN
This fall and winter are expected to be quite the busy time in hospital around Central and Northern Michigan and a new technology may help doctors and patients get through it a bit easier.
The Central Michigan University Research Corporation or CMURC, has come up with a program to let hospitals know exactly how many staff they need to have per patient.
The system is Patient Volume Forecaster and it requires no new software or hardware for the hospitals to use it.
Tracy Irwin Hewitt is a innovations consultant from Business Insight, a division of CMURC.
"They needed a tool that would help them do a better job of predicting when patients were going to come in the door so that they could make better decisions about staffing or other investments for the organization."
The Forecaster should be ready for use in the next few months.
For CMU Public Radio News, I'm Mary Finn.
This fall and winter are expected to be quite the busy time in hospital around Central and Northern Michigan and a new technology may help doctors and patients get through it a bit easier.
The Central Michigan University Research Corporation or CMURC, has come up with a program to let hospitals know exactly how many staff they need to have per patient.
The system is Patient Volume Forecaster and it requires no new software or hardware for the hospitals to use it.
Tracy Irwin Hewitt is a innovations consultant from Business Insight, a division of CMURC.
"They needed a tool that would help them do a better job of predicting when patients were going to come in the door so that they could make better decisions about staffing or other investments for the organization."
The Forecaster should be ready for use in the next few months.
For CMU Public Radio News, I'm Mary Finn.
