Mission Control

AdventHealth has opened its new “Mission Control”, which a press release describes as the largest command centre of its kind. Its aim to make clinical operations across the healthcare system as streamlined and efficient as possible. The press release adds that the Mission Control will function like its NASA namesake, orchestrating patient care at all nine of AdventHealth’s campuses in Florida (USA). Together, these hospitals handle more than 2 million patient visits per year—helping make AdventHealth one of the nation’s largest not-for-profit health systems.

The 12,000-square-foot high-tech centre is staffed 24 hours a day, seven days a week by a team of more than 50 nurses, emergency medical services (EMS) and flight dispatchers, transport techs and other specialists. The team uses artificial intelligence to inform and guide decision-making in areas including ambulance and helicopter dispatch, patient transfers between units and facilities, and prioritisation of placement and treatment.

AdventHealth worked with GE Healthcare Partners to develop and implement the Mission Control technology at its Orlando campus. The command centre features 60 monitors that continually display information such as near-time information such as patient bed status, as well as helicopter and ambulance status and movements. Daryl Tol, president and CEO of AdventHealth’s Central Florida Division, comments: “AdventHealth is at the leading edge in deploying this technology to help provide the best, most efficient care possible for our patients. While the command centre is invisible to patients, our team of experts will be there around the clock to make sure patients receive the care they need, quickly and safely.”