Using traditional dependence solely on local on-site resources, health care facilities have struggled with the challenge of meeting variable patient demand with a fixed number of staff for unscheduled care processes. Day to day patient arrivals can vary by as much as 50% from the expected mean. Some days facilities are under-staffed and patient care suffers; other days are over-staffed resulting in excess costs. This systematic stress is exacerbated by the increased exposure risk for staff and patients as they interact face-to-face for tasks that can otherwise be performed faster and more efficiently by remote personnel. A mechanism to improve efficiency and productivity is clearly needed.

The Solution: EmOpti's Emergency Medicine Workflow Solution is a software platform designed to help your providers optimize emergency department and urgent care workflows for many use cases, enabling a combination of on-site and virtual resources to collaborate and improve patient outcomes while also improving staff productivity. The Solution was designed from the beginning to take advantage of multiple AWS infrastructure components, from the CHIME service to manage video sessions to Sagemaker to enable automation based on machine learning, to deliver super-fast provider workflows with unique virtual consult routing and queue management.

Imagine a world where every patient care area has an intelligent video "portal" used for multiple purposes. The EmOpti Emergency Medicine Workflow Solution supports multiple ED use cases, all improving efficiency and productivity while delivering improved patient outcomes. These use cases include:

• Tele-triage
• Rapid discharge
• Virtual rounding
• Virtual registration
• Automated discharge teaching
• Social services virtual consults
• Specialist virtual consults
• Hospitalist integration
• Language interpretation
• Academic teaching

The speed and usability of the Solution has proven effective in intense, high volume environments, where the system is used on virtually every patient hundreds of time each day as part of routine operations. In many cases the number of consults provided per hour by a remote provider is virtually double the number seen when the same process occurs using in-person staff. And when the remote provider services multiple facilities simultaneously further improvement in productivity occurs through a load-leveling effect that better matches resources to fluctuating demand.

To address staff shortages EmOpti provides telehealth and hybrid workflow solutions with automation to accelerate patient throughput, increase revenue and reduce costs. EmOpti’s technology is proven to support high volume, complex, multi-facility deployments with high reliability. The team is comprised of experienced clinicians, logistics experts, health business analysts, and innovative software developers.

Artificial intelligence tools can be added optionally at the point of care including clinical decision support for specific patients and to answer general questions about clinical performance for quality assessment and benchmarking.

The EmOpti Telehealth software platform supports 20+ in-hospital use cases, enabling virtual teams to provide remote video consultations and collaborate with on site personnel to optimize care, decrease exposure risk and decrease costs in emergency departments, inpatient units and other acute care settings.

EmOpti's professional services division helps health organizations address staff shortages by offering virtual physicians, dieticians and other professional staff to provide high quality clinical care.

Solutions include:

*Emergency Medicine - Triage, Discharge, Rounding, Registration, Discharge Teaching, and more.

*Hospital Medicine - Rounding, Oversight, Sitter, Discharge Planning, Interpreter, Specialist, and more.

*Urgent Care - Triage, Oversight, Registration, Transfer Coordination, Interpreter and more.

*Intelligent Face Sheet - AI based Clinical Decision Support provides a co-pilot function for clinicians at the point of care.

*AskOBI - AI based chatbot for natural language question-response including the unique capability for real time queries of tabular and statistical information from both customer's and national benchmark databases.

*Professional Services - Physicians, dieticians and other professionals provide assessments, order entry, results review, and consultation with patients and other staff for multiple use cases. 

DispatchHealth offers a variety of services to help our partners:

On-demand ED Substitution – Increase Access and Reduce ED Utilization with 60-70% of ED capabilities via ER-trained providers capable of laboratory testing, IV medication administration, procedures , diagnostics & much more.

This service helps provide support for all other programs and is the 'base service' that operates in our 50+ markets across the country. Here are the other services Dispatch provides which are further outlined in the portal:

Post-Acute Care at Home Services

- ED-To-Home - Reduce Observations & Improve ED Bounce Backs with scheduled in-home visits 24-48 hrs post discharge from the ED, by trained providers who can provide medical intervention if needed

- Hospital-To-Home (IP) - Reduce Readmissions & Improve LOS/Throughput with scheduled in-home visits 24-72 hrs post discharge from inpatient setting

Hospital Substitution 

- Create "Virtual Bed” Revenue & Inpatient Capacity by a hospital trained providers with capabilities to support complex medical and post-surgical inpatients 24/7 monitoring, support, and coordination of patients in the home who meet inpatient admission criteria

SNF Substitution

- Improve LOS/Throughput for High Risk DRGs with SNF level care at home from high readmit DRG's, by hospital trained providers

DispatchHealth delivers care across the healthcare continuum to keep patients healthy at 

home—from caring for the highest acuity patients with urgent or hospital level needs to supporting transitions of care and ongoing management of chronic conditions—we believe home is where your health is.

DispatchHealth was founded in 2013 to create an integrated, convenient, high touch, care delivery solution that extends the capabilities of a patient’s care team and provides definitive, quality care in the home while decreasing costs. Currently, DispatchHealth serves patients in markets across the US and is poised for continued rapid growth to meet consumer demand.

Partnering with DispatchHealth puts the power of a complete system of in-home care at your fingertips, ready to deploy where and when you want it.

DispatchHealth works closely with health systems, payers, providers, and others to deliver care in the home to help address capacity constraints at brick and mortar facilities, as well reducing medical costs in at-risk/VBC populations through ED, Inpatient, 911 and Observation diversions.

Medical teams are available during the day and also on weekends, evenings and holidays, and can be requested via online, over the phone, or through care coordination referral. DispatchHealth is contracted with most major insurance companies and accepts Medicare and Medicaid.

To learn more about how DispatchHealth can help your health system reduce the total cost of care, improve clinical outcomes, and delight patients by moving high-acuity care into the home visit: https://www.dispatchhealth.com/partners/

Scalability - With over 500+ care teams operating in 50 markets, DispatchHealth has the proven ability to scale to meet the demands of each market and those of our health system partners to help with capacity constraints and on-demand needs.

Patient Experience - With an Average NPS of 95 across all markets, Dispatch is becomes a valuable care extension of our health system partners

Experience - DispatchHealth is the largest provider of high-acuity in-home care in the United States, with 1 million patient visits, 300M covered lives and dozens of health system partnerships.