Loud Squirrel, Inc., a boutique developer of simulation software for the contact center and healthcare industries, was established in 2006. 

Simulation is used in complex systems to show the eventual real effects of alternative conditions and courses of action.

ED Simulation was created with the sole purpose of helping Emergency Departments become more effective and efficient through identification and optimization of patient and physician interactions. This increased efficiency results in reduced patient wait times, reduced diversion and patients leaving without being seen, more effective physician scheduling and faster patient throughput. All of this leads to increased revenue, decreased expense, higher patient satisfaction and better outcomes.

We’re all aware of the controversy surrounding patient wait times and the discussions over the causes of lengthy wait times. ED Simulation is designed to inject some mathematical “sense” to those discussions. 

We have expended considerable effort in making the application extremely comprehensive, yet unusually simple to use. You don’t have to sit with a programmer to develop a simulation with ED Simulation – you can develop multiple emergency department simulations by yourself.

NO PROGRAMMING INVOLVED

THE FOCUS IS RESULTS

Each hospital is different.

These are some of the questions that ED Simulation can answer in your hospital:

• Does Nurse Triage add value?
• Does a Fast Track slow down overall patient time in system?
• What effect does specialist delay have in patient time in system?
• Can ambulance diversion be reduced?
• When should a lower acuity patient be seen before a higher acuity patient?
• How do we eliminate patients leaving without being seen?
• Does shifting a physician schedule by two hours make any overall difference?
• Are Lab results increasing patient time in system? Or is there no effect?
• How many beds do I need?
• How many physicians should I schedule?
• What will happen if I can’t replace a sick physician?
• Does physician efficiency matter?
• Should physicians triage?
• Should physicians triage and assess?
• Does delay to consult affect overall patient time in system?
• How responsible for patient delays are admit times?
• Would improving documentation efficiency affect patient time in system?
• What would happen if H1N1 caused a 10% increase in arrivals? 20%?  30%?
• Under what conditions should we call for ambulance diversion?
• What changes in staffing and infrastructure do we need to handle a disaster?
• Where are the bottlenecks that affect patient time in system?
• Should physicians triage arrivals by ambulance, while RNs triage the waiting room?