Bed logistics | Columna Flow Search & Find

See every bed, and keep it moving

Columna Flow Search & Find shows you where every bed is and what state it's in. No more phoning wards to check on a bed, no more walking the floor to find one that is free.

The moment a bed is flagged for cleaning, the task goes straight to housekeeping automatically, so beds return to use faster and your emergency department has more capacity to work with.

Hand holding a phone showing equipment maintenance history in Columna Flow Search & Find, beside a QR-tagged hospital bed. — Scanning a bed's QR code brings up its full maintenance and cleaning history in Columna Flow Search & Find.

One shared, live picture of every bed

Search & Find gives wards, housekeeping, porters and admissions the same live view.

Admissions and flow coordinators can place the next patient with confidence. Porters head straight to a bed that is actually free. Your whole team works from the same picture, so beds move faster and less time goes into coordinating them by phone.

Find the right bed and start the next task

Find an available bed without walking the floor
See where every bed is and which ones are genuinely ready, from any screen. Admissions and flow coordinators can place the next patient against a live picture instead of phoning wards and waiting for someone to check.
Check any bed's status in seconds
Scan a bed to see whether it's clean, needs cleaning, in cleaning or needs maintenance, along with its recent history. Instead of walking over to check, anyone on the team can confirm it in seconds.
The cleaning task starts on its own
When a bed is flagged as needing cleaning, the task is created and sent to housekeeping automatically. A bed flagged for maintenance raises the right task the same way, so the work starts without anyone making a call.

From vacated to ready, tracked step by step

Beds move through a handful of familiar states: clean, needs cleaning, in cleaning, and needs maintenance. Search & Find tracks each bed's movements and these status changes as they happen in the systems it connects to, so your teams can see where a bed is now and which ones are held up waiting for cleaning or maintenance.

Each bed's journey from vacated to ready, with cleaning and washing status visible at a glance.

Works with your existing clinical and logistics systems

Search & Find connects to the clinical and logistics systems your hospital already runs, so bed location and status sit alongside the tools your teams use every day. Updates flow between systems, so wards, housekeeping and admissions work from the same live picture, with no duplicate data entry and no separate bed-tracking tool to maintain.

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See how faster bed turnaround works for your hospital

Bring a few of your own numbers - discharge delays, ED waits - and we'll walk through how hospitals are turning beds around faster with Search & Find.

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