Silbo leverages collective intelligence and real-time data to automatically manage patient flows, optimize bed management, streamline team coordination, and enhance overall healthcare efficiency.
In the constantly bustling world of healthcare, the efficient management of hospital beds and patient pathways has become crucial. Enter Silbo, an innovative platform designed to alleviate the burden on healthcare professionals and optimize patient flow.
Founded in 2018 by Antoine Bohuon, Silbo aims to improve working conditions in hospitals. The platform utilizes AI modules to assist healthcare workers in managing beds, patient transport, cleaning, and medical transportation. This collaborative and forward-looking approach to hospital movements helps reduce emergency room congestion, decrease stress for healthcare workers, and save valuable time.
As a centralized decision support solution, it assists healthcare professionals in their daily tasks. Bed management, ambulance ordering, and tracking of stretcher handling, among other things, are simplified and optimized.
Silbo has already been adopted by over 200 institutions in France, including Groupe Hospitalier Paris Saint Joseph, GHT Gironde, GHT Dordogne, and Vivalto Santé. These institutions report significant benefits from the platform.
Transforming Work Organization
Managing hospital beds is a complex task requiring meticulous coordination and seamless communication across different departments. Silbo facilitates this process with an ergonomic and intuitive interface, enhancing the user experience. With real-time updated data, professionals can make informed decisions and anticipate future needs.
The impact of Silbo is evident in numerous establishments. Groupe Hospitalier Paris Saint Joseph reports an 80% reduction in phone calls to find beds from the emergency room. At GHT du Jura, the number of patients waiting in the emergency room overnight has dropped from 10-15 to zero. The Centre Hospitalier de Périgueux has saved 3-4 hours per day and replaced nine tools with Silbo, showcasing the platform’s efficiency and integration capabilities.
Collective Intelligence at the Service of Patient Flows
Silbo leverages collective intelligence to manage patient flows automatically, breaking down silos to ensure seamless coordination across departments. The platform anticipates and supports healthcare professionals in patient care, providing a comprehensive and detailed view of bed statuses and patient journeys. By integrating patient flows into team schedules and service capacities, Silbo ensures that necessary information for scheduling is readily available.
This real-time and anticipatory approach allows caregivers to visualize all patient journeys, anticipate future needs, and adjust patient pathways to enhance the quality of care. The decision support system smooths and optimizes the workload, enabling efficient distribution of care and reducing stress on both staff and resources.
A Holistic Solution for Healthcare Efficiency
Silbo’s bed management solution ensures that a bed is available in the right department at the right time, interfacing seamlessly with existing tools to control activity. This transparency extends on a territorial scale, providing caregivers with reliable, real-time bed status accessible to all, thus allowing anticipation and scheduling of high-tension periods or service congestion. Silbo also optimizes stretcher transportation, assigning missions in less than a minute to the nearest available teams, reducing waiting times and improving efficiency.
The platform enhances team coordination, professionalizes the stretcher-bearer role, and improves communication between different services. Additionally, Silbo simplifies medical transport management, automating external transport requests and saving significant time for staff, ultimately leading to improved patient care and resource allocation.
A Vision for the Future and Innovative Origins
With ambitions to enter the DACH market (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) and reach a turnover of 5 million euros by 2025, the startup aims to have 50 employees and equip one in two GHTs (Groupement Hospitalier de Territoire) within five years.
Antoine Bohuon, founder of Silbo, explains: “We aim to offer hospitals a future where patient care and operational excellence coexist seamlessly, through a revolutionary approach that prioritizes innovation in the service of the well-being of healthcare workers and patients.”
Silbo’s story begins in 2018 with the creation of Ambuliz, a platform dedicated to managing medical transport orders. The COVID-19 crisis in 2019 highlighted new needs, prompting the company to pivot towards patient flow management. Silbo then developed tools for managing patient transport and hospital beds, addressing the urgent demands of the field.
Today, Silbo integrates the fields of transport, patient transport, cleaning, and bed management into a single platform, simplifying the daily operations of over 200 establishments in France and abroad.
