Nortel Upgrades Patient Discharge Solution

Nortel announced a significant upgrade to its Patient Discharge Solution for healthcare providers. The new feature—Patient Referral and Placement—allows hospitals to streamline the process of discharging a patient to another facility and obtaining medical equipment for the patient.

This addition to Nortel's Patient Discharge Solution can help hospitals realize better patient flow management, reduced bed turnover time and increase the number of patients they can treat.

"Our healthcare solutions use powerful unified communications technologies to accelerate and automate the clinical processes," said Sanjeev Gupta, general manager of healthcare solutions at Nortel. "The results are solutions that are specifically designed to work within the clinical environment to enhance business results through faster patient discharge, better patient care, improved clinician/equipment productivity, and increased patient/staff satisfaction."

Nortel teamed with  Authentidate Inscrybe Healthcare to integrate Inscrybe's Healthcare Information Exchange functionality into the existing Nortel Patient Discharge Solution.

Discharging patients into post acute-care facilities is traditionally a labor and time intensive process for hospitals. Often it requires multiple phone calls and correspondence before a patient can be transferred from one care environment to another. With Patient Referral and Placement, hospitals can increase efficiency and reduce these costs by more than 80 percent, according to Inscrybe Authentidate research.