An emergency department already has a tracking board. The problem is that keeping it true is somebody's job, and that somebody is usually the person you least want standing at a keyboard. Ours is fed by the workflow instead.
It is accurate at seven, drifting by eleven, and fiction by three, because updating it competes with patient care.
A department that turns a room every two hours cannot keep a taped sign correct at the door.
Charge, attending and transport each keep their own version, and none of them agree.
Registration, orders, results, bed assignment and discharge are already messages. The board reads them, so nobody types a status.
When a badge crosses a doorway the board knows the room has been seen, and the call clears without anyone pressing cancel.
Door signs change with the chart, which in an emergency department means they change constantly and correctly.
| Column | Where it comes from | Why it matters here |
|---|---|---|
| Room and patient | Registration and bed assignment | The single most argued about fact in the department |
| Waiting on | Orders, laboratory and imaging | Makes the holdup visible before somebody asks about it |
| Time in room | Presence and arrival | Length of stay stops being a report you read next month |
| Precautions | The chart | Posted at the door the moment it is documented |
| Disposition | Orders and bed requests | Admitting and transport see it at the same time you do |
Photograph it, whiteboard or screen. We will rebuild it from your event feeds with sample data and you can tell us what is missing.