FAQ
ED Director / Chief Nursing Officer
How does this solution optimize medication review/MedRec?
Pharmacy teams can initiate reviews before the decision-to-admit (DTA) is finalized. This eliminates waiting for the DTA and avoids bottlenecks behind the DTA process, enabling a faster start.
How does this solution optimize consult requests?
Consults, such as physical therapy or psychiatric evaluations, can be scheduled earlier. Knowing about a likely admission 2 hours in advance allows more efficient use of time and resources.
This might not work for us; we do things differently. How will you address that?
The model is trained on your hospital’s own historical data, ensuring it’s tailored to your unique processes and patient population. Real-time and historical encounters ensure the model stays up-to-date and effective. The implementation process includes identifying specific workflow integration points to ensure it aligns with your operations.
What if the model doesn’t anticipate an admission, but the patient is admitted?
The model only anticipates admissions when it is highly certain, recognizing there are scenarios it cannot fully anticipate. Admissions that Choreo-ED doesn’t anticipate follow the same workflow your team is currently following.
ED Physician
Will this tool replace doctors?
Choreo-ED is not intended to replace any hospital staff or make clinical decisions. It’s designed to assist care teams, particularly on the back end, by moving operations from reactive to proactive.
Most often, I know if a patient will be admitted when I first see them. How does Choreo-ED help expedite this process? What problem does this solution solve for physicians?
At times, physicians know whether or not a patient will be admitted from the second they step into the ED. Choreo-ED automates and standardizes the workflows that follow this intuition, ensuring timely downstream action from care teams and allowing physicians to focus on patient care. A traditionally time-consuming process, Choreo-ED reduces friction to help initiate patient
admission and discharge far earlier.
How does the anticipated decision help my care team?
Care teams can start prepping and identifying beds, and hospitalists can begin coordinating with ED physicians earlier, streamlining the process.
Hospitalist
Without a complete picture of the patient, hospitalists may not want to see a patient. In this case, how does Choreo-ED add value?
Targeting and identifying the clearest patient cases as early as possible, Choreo-ED is designed
to enable more time for methodical decision making and triaging. Fast decision making can create an inherent tension within the patient flow, Choreo-ED is designed to resolve that.
Nurse
How would this solution impact nurses?
It reduces cognitive load related to admissions by affording more time for the team to work through the admission process. By anticipating admissions automatically in real time, it can reduce the feeling of batched admissions that results from reactive workflows. It also minimizes the stress of shuffling and coordinating patient throughput from the ED.
What if we don’t have beds available? Some patients will be boarded anyway.
Improving coordination across care teams can result in a more seamless and positive patient
experience. Choreo-ED empowers staff with updates for patients and family members, helping ease stress and allow for preparation. If a patient will likely need to stay overnight, care teams can notify the patient’s family to pack an overnight bag or coordinate transportation sooner in
advance.
Chief Financial Officer
How does Choreo-ED help the hospital financially?
Choreo can identify inpatient admissions early, which affords more time to coordinate any potential transfer to other hospitals in the system.
Improved LWBS rates, reduced ED LOS and improved patient satisfaction are measurable outcomes of improved patient flow, helping generate more revenue for the hospital in the form of more patients and higher CMS stars ratings.
Chief Operating Officer
How does Choreo-ED improve hospital operations?
Choreo-ED makes the ED-to-inpatient pipeline more visible, improving staff alignment in transport, nursing and bed management and helping care teams anticipate the daily inpatient census. This model supports continuous improvement in the patient flow.
When the emergency department makes a DTA or DTD, who reacts to it?
Those responsible for patient flow and throughput in the ED will find their workflows simplified. The tool helps reduce cognitive load, enabling quicker and easier decision-making.
What roles in the hospital or emergency department would use Choreo-ED?
Throughput coordinators or similar roles who manage patient transitions from the ED to inpatient care would benefit the most. Hospitals without these roles would still see streamlined
workflows and reduced cognitive loads for staff.
Is this going to create more work for the staff?
Choreo-ED fully integrates into the EHR workflow without disrupting the team or adding complexity. The model is highly accurate, taking existing workflows and optimizing them—no additional tools or extra clicks required.
Chief Medical Information Officer
How does Choreo integrate with our clinical systems and workflows?
Choreo-ED seamlessly integrates with existing EHRs, like Epic, and generates actionable insights
directly into existing track boards without disrupting workflows.
Is this secure, scalable, and sustainable?
Choreo-ED is SOC2 certified, and its HIPAA-compliant architecture is designed to scale safely across departments and facilities. Requiring a lightweight integration, the application needs
minimal IT overhead.
Chief Quality Officer
What quality metrics can Choreo-ED improve?
Choreo-ED can decrease ED LOS and boarding times and reduce patient complaints related to
delays or lack of communication, improving patient experience and satisfaction. In addition, Choreo-ED supports equity by applying consistent logic across all patient presentations and
providers.
Let’s choreograph care, together.
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