Hospital Bed Management — Resource Optimization

What Is Bed Management?

Bed Management is a system for real-time tracking and administration of hospital bed availability, occupancy, cleaning status, and assignments. It is directly linked to ADT (Admission, Discharge, Transfer) workflows, automatically updating each bed's status as patients are admitted, transferred, or discharged.

An efficient bed management system optimizes patient flow, reduces emergency department wait times, accelerates bed turnaround, and maximizes hospital resource utilization. Visual dashboards display occupancy by unit, floor, or site, enabling informed operational decisions in real time.

Systems such as Oracle, Epic, and InterSystems include bed management modules as part of their hospital platforms. In Latin America, where resource optimization is especially critical, these systems have a direct impact on operational efficiency and quality of care.

Why It Matters in Healthcare

• Flow optimization: reduces wait times by streamlining bed assignment for emergency and pending-admission patients.
• Real-time visibility: visual dashboards show occupancy, availability, and cleaning status by unit, floor, and site.
• Reduced unnecessary stays: active monitoring enables identifying and managing pending discharges to free beds faster.
• ADT integration: automatic bed status updates from the ADT workflow eliminate manual records and errors.
• Capacity planning: historical occupancy data enables forecasting needs and optimizing resource planning.

How Davix Relates to Bed Management

• The Davix HIS provides real-time bed management dashboards across all institutional sites.
• It integrates with the ADT module for automatic bed status updates upon admissions, transfers, and discharges.
• It offers visualization by unit, floor, and site with occupancy, availability, and cleaning status indicators.
• The multi-site, cloud-native architecture enables centralized bed management across hospital networks.
• It generates historical occupancy reports for capacity planning and decision-making.

Learn how Davix HIS optimizes bed management and patient flow at your hospital.