Flow models can help envision and plan for the future and get stakeholders to support transformational change in care team services delivery, according to an article on the Medical Construction & Design website. 

Healthcare leaders have gained valuable insights from Building Information Modeling and have used energy modeling to improve building energy performance and sustainability. 

There have also been significant advances in the use of modeling and simulation technology to perform comprehensive utilization and flow models.

Across a variety of patient-centered care projects, modeling of patient state times has driven innovations in workflow and design to significantly enhance the patient’s experience and satisfaction, while at the same time improving operational productivity, the article said. 

For example, according to the article, if patients in a clinic spend 15 percent of their time engaged in activities that do not involve direct care from a physician or medical assistant, including filling out questionnaires and waiting for exam rooms and providers, the care team and project team can use wasted-time metrics to explore and deploy alternatives in workflow and facility design.

Read the article.