Technical description
Wise Bed Manager is a web application, and the whole architecture is one sentence: it is installed once on a single server, and every workstation in the hospital reaches it through a browser. There is no client software to install, to update or to support — which is the reason a ward PC that nobody has touched in years still works with it.
Client and server
One server, any number of browsers.
Anything with a browser. Nothing to install, nothing to roll out, no client software to keep up to date — including devices your IT department did not buy for this.
Any ordinary PC or virtual machine will run it. This application stores text — beds, rooms, patients, log entries — so it asks very little of the hardware, and a machine sized for everyday office work is already more than enough.
What you actually need
- Hardware
- Any normal PC or virtual machine — nothing special has to be bought
- Software
- MySQL, Apache HTTP Server and PHP
- Operating system
- Linux or Windows
- Where it stands
- In the hospital, or on a cloud server if your rules allow it
- How many
- One, for the whole hospital
- Device
- Anything with a current browser — PC, laptop, tablet, ward terminal
- Software to install
- None
- Screen
- The unit view is drawn for a desktop-sized screen; 1280×1024 or wider is the comfortable working size. Lists and reports read fine on anything smaller.
- Network
- Your existing hospital LAN or Wi-Fi, over HTTPS
- Access
- An address such as http://your.server/bedmanager, given to staff by your IT department
How the application is built
Data entry
Your data can be created manually, generated automatically from our database scripts, or both at once — whichever fits your situation.
When beds, rooms, units, bed types, bed equipment and patient data are entered by hand, the administration interface gives clear instructions and descriptions for each field. Every interface function is directly accessible from the places where you need it, and shortcuts are provided for the ones you use most.
User interface
The graphical interface is deliberately intuitive, and requires very little technical knowledge. It consists of three working modules — bed manager, unit, and administration — plus the executive module.
The unit module is a controller for the beds inside a single hospital unit: tracking free capacity, sorting beds by their characteristics and equipment, and managing patient data. Its scope is limited to the one unit a nurse is responsible for.
The bed manager module has access to all operations and all units in the hospital: monitoring availability and occupancy per unit, patient management, transfers between units, and a review of individual actions inside each unit.
Executive module
The executive module lets hospital management review and evaluate how effectively hospital resources are allocated over a chosen period.
It provides bed occupancy statistics at hospital and unit level, and the structure of beds by their type and by the equipment attached to them. Any of it can be produced in printer-friendly form.
Administration
Administration is highly configurable and lets a single administrator manage every aspect of the application: the data itself, and all system users — nurses, bed managers and executive users.
Maintenance and upgrades
No bed management application is ever finished. We provide regular maintenance and upgrades, and our development team is specialised in this area.
We analyse customer feedback and use it when planning the next release, so that the application keeps matching what hospitals actually need.
What Wise Bed Manager is not
- It is not an electronic health record. It manages beds, occupancy and patient placement — not diagnoses, treatment, prescriptions or clinical notes.
- It is not a hospital information system. It is expected to sit alongside one, which is where the patient data behind a social security number comes from.
- It is not an appointment or outpatient scheduling system.
- It is not a desktop application. Wise Timetable and Wise CRM are; this one runs in a browser.
See it running before you decide
The demo is the real application with sample data. Open a unit, drag a patient onto another bed, and see the log record it.