Real-time patient and bed management
Connect patient movement to resource availability
Managing hospital capacity is a race against time. Manual updates and phone calls lead to operational blind spots. Beds appear occupied when discharge is planned. Cleaning is delayed. Patients wait in ED while empty beds sit unprepared, and the result is a series of blind spots that crowd corridors and stall elective surgery.
DNV Imatis provides the operational layer that connects patient movement directly to resource availability. By getting the brilliant basics of bed management right, we remove friction between admission, transfer and discharge. This unlocks capacity, supports elective delivery and reduces avoidable pressure on emergency care.
Restoring operational control
Our approach connects the multidisciplinary team around one shared operational picture. We manage the communication, coordination and collaboration required to keep patients moving. Most bed management systems show occupancy. We also focus on why a patient is still in hospital.
- Gain full visibility of every bed: Move beyond static bed counting to a live hospital view showing bed status, discharge plans and outstanding actions so teams can intervene before flow backs up into ED and corridor areas.
- Coordinate support services: Close the communication gap between clinical staff and support teams. Automatically connect clinical updates to housekeeping and portering requests so turnaround begins the moment a patient leaves, reducing idle bed time and ambulance handover delays.
- Remove discharge barriers: By flagging discharge hurdles early, help multidisciplinary teams plan complex exits ahead of time. Provide structured discharge checklists that highlight what is complete and what remains outstanding so multidisciplinary teams can resolve delays earlier in the patient stay and open capacity for elective admissions.
- Strengthen real-time team coordination: Provide a shared operational view across departments, roles and shifts so everyone works from the same, up-to-date information. Enable structured communication, task visibility and clear ownership to reduce misunderstandings, minimise delays and ensure that decisions are based on the current patient and operational context.
- Align with the 10-Year Health Plan: Strengthen your ability to meet targets for throughput and emergency resilience.
Trust-level ROI and data-driven outcomes
Our solution turns operational visibility into actual hospital capacity and financial impact. Results below are drawn from live hospital deployments:
£3,000–£5,000 annual value recovered per bed
Unlocked significant capacity by closing the gap between a bed becoming available and the next patient occupying it in a 72-bed emergency clinic.
50% faster bed turnaround
Cut empty bed time from 42 minutes to 20 minutes by connecting clinical discharge directly to cleaning and portering at a 630-bed acute hospital with 5,000 employees.
28% reduction in staff time per patient
Freed up nursing time for direct care by removing manual chasing and duplicated documentation.
20% productivity gain
Improved Trust-wide coordination by replacing fragmented information sharing and administrative load with digital workflows.
Improved staff experience and retention
Reduced the daily friction and burnout associated with manual coordination
The solution is modular and can begin in a single ward or specialty, typically delivering visible operational impact within months before scaling Trust wide.
Core capabilities: The brilliant basics
- Collaborative digital whiteboards: Coordinate teams in real-time with a live view of bed status, patients, discharge plans and responsible staff. This includes real-time overview of outliers in corridors or non-specialty areas to ensure clinical safety and oversight are never compromised.
- Checklists: Include structured discharge checklists for each patient view that make outstanding tasks visible to the whole team. For example, before planned discharge, teams can immediately see whether mobility aids, imaging, pharmacy, social care sign off or TTO remains incomplete.
Experience how DNV Imatis enables a seamless transfer of patients from the ED (Emergency Department) to the ward.
Add-ons
You can expand your digital hospital with specific modules designed to manage flow across different departments:
- Real-time operational coordination: Request and assign tasks that are automatically triggered when a patient, bed or unit status changes. Gain a live overview of patients, beds and ward activity to support staffing and capacity planning through dashboards.
- Role-based mobile information sharing: Provide staff with access to patient status, tasks and key contacts directly at the bedside via hospital mobile devices.
- Orchestration beyond the ward: Guide teams through each step of defined patient pathways
- Coordinate operating theatre flow: Extend real-time tracking into surgical suites to reduce delays and increase the number of operations per day.
- Empower patients: Communicate with and involve patients through the MyStay application. Patients can easily request water, assistance or other needs, while also viewing their daily schedule, test results and other relevant information related to their stay.
- Track tests and results: Follow laboratory, X-ray and other diagnostic samples, and receive results instantly through secure mobile notifications.
- Support for diagnostics and sample processes: Close the loop in blood sampling by ensuring correct patient identification and full traceability from test ordering to sample collection.
Connecting with your existing systems
We integrate with your PAS and EPR systems. Ward lists and admission data remain in your core systems. We synchronise securely and convert static lists into live operational workflows and structured task management.
No parallel data entry. No replacement of clinical records. We enhance what you already use.
Ready to take the next step towards operational control?
DNV Imatis enables Trusts to stabilise emergency pressure, protect elective activity and reduce avoidable agency spend by managing flow as it happens. We support multidisciplinary teams with shared visibility, make discharge safer and turn operational data into practical capacity.