As industry trends in modern healthcare demand more efficient operations and access to the most recent developments, today's hospital administrators, clinicians, and healthcare professionals require continuous access to expertise. The changing economics and practices in healthcare have altered the industry landscape giving rise to larger numbers of private practices and ambulatory surgical centers (ASCs). The need for varied expertise increases in times of change, making the capture and distribution of knowledge evermore valuable. PortBlue modules help embed needed organizational best practices, clinical procedures, and business analyses into daily work processes for industry participants, including hospitals, ASCs, and private practices.

Solutions to Help Executives

Hospitals, clinics, and other facilities continue to close their doors in record numbers. As clinical developments require more advanced equipment, hospital executives face increase pressure to make the right capital investment and strategic judgments to manage profitability. PortBlue Planner modules help ensure a rigorous approach to financial decisions, leveraging expert know-how in various operating scenarios to identify true revenue sources, cost drivers, and profitability levers.

Solutions to Help Administrators

Lower reimbursements and higher operating costs require administrators to do more and more, with less. To provide these improvements, today's hospital and practice administrators increasingly require detailed information to make informed decisions. PortBlue's web-based benchmarking modules allow administrators to adopt best practices by comparing their financial and operational metrics to comparable facilities (teaching hospitals, community hospitals, multispecialty ASCs, single specialty ASCs, and private practices).

Solutions for Disaster/Emergency Coordinators

Today's political environment mandates that hospital systems be prepared for previously unthinkable possibilities. PortBlue's hospital incident response system (CommandAware) modules help hospitals more efficiently prepare and manage all phases of emergency response. The PortBlue CommandAware modules include the following emergency response phases:

• Pre-incident: leverages best practices from recognized experts in their fields to customize an interactive system or individual hospital response plan to hazards (e.g., chemical, biological, radiological, natural, etc.)
• During incident: applies the tailored plan via a web-interface to keep all involved personnel operating on the same page and using the most recent information available
• Post-incident: reviews staff activities and resources applied to incident management to learn from experience, increase coordination, and identify possible procedural improvements and reimbursement opportunities.