Transform Spotlight: What’s blocking your OR block utilization?
At Transform 2022, healthcare leaders and technology experts gathered to discuss using AI to drive better capacity use and higher ROI amid financial and operational pressures. In this session, LeanTaaS’ Austin Trout and Diana Gillogly engaged with an audience of perioperative leaders on developing better surgical block management to open operating room (OR) access. View […]
Why focus on operating room prime time utilization: a metric for better use of OR time
Many operating rooms (ORs) rely on surgical block time utilization as a key operational metric, and they are not incorrect to do so. Block utilization is an important measure of the overall health of OR time distribution and allocation, and of operating room utilization as a whole. Block time utilization is so broad, however, that […]
Beyond surgical block time utilization: a holistic approach to optimizing the OR
The primary constraint to the timely delivery of patient care is access to often-scarce resources, and fewer resources are more scarce than operating room (OR) time. Available OR time is often in short supply, and the consistently unpredictable demand for it compounds the challenge of allocating and utilizing it optimally. Traditional means of measuring the […]