Becker's Healthcare May 5, 2023
Mariah Taylor

Children’s Mercy Kansas City (Mo.) is the first freestanding pediatric hospital to open a NASA-inspired “mission-control” center that tracks patients from admission to discharge, reduces clinician administrative burden and centralizes hospital operations.

The Patient Progression Hub is a 6,000-square-foot hub with two walls of more than 20 screens, open desks and predictive AI and analytics that identify and solve problems, according to an April 24 news release from the hospital.

“The space is designed for teams to interact in real time to the data feeds,” Stephanie Meyer, RN, chief nursing officer at Children’s Mercy, told Becker’s. “It allows groups in a hospital that want to work together to do so more seamlessly by actually taking down the walls and...

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