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Discharge readiness tracking

AI discharge planning board for hospital wards

Every patient expected to go home has a live list of what is still outstanding, such as medicines, transport or a care package, with owners and chasers.

01 today

The problem

Patients who are medically ready wait in beds for medicines, transport, equipment or a care package. The tasks sit with different teams, and nobody has one view of what is blocking each discharge. Beds stay full while the emergency department queues.

02 the run

What the AI does

  1. Step 1: Reads expected discharge dates and ward round notes from the record each morning.
  2. Step 2: Builds a checklist per patient: discharge summary, medicines to take home, transport, equipment, care package and follow-up.
  3. Step 3: Checks each item's status in pharmacy, transport and social care systems where they connect, and asks owners in Teams where they do not.
  4. Step 4: Shows a ward board of who can go today and what is holding up the rest.
  5. Step 5: Reports the most common delay reasons each week for the patient flow team.

paused: waiting for a person to approve

03 human in the loop

Where a person approves

The clinical team decides who is ready to go home. The tracker only shows and chases outstanding tasks; it never changes a discharge decision.

04 after

What changes

Patients who are ready go home earlier in the day, and the ward sees blockers in time to act on them. Managers see where delays really come from.

Case studySeeing what is holding up every discharge, ward by wardThe rollout, what to measure, a worked example and the research behind it.

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