More Than Just a Chair: The Smarter Way to Optimize Infusion Scheduling
Infusion scheduling is more than just reserving chairs on a grid. Traditional methods often overlook real-world challenges like fluctuating treatment times, staff availability, and pharmacy delays, leading to inefficiencies and long wait times. This blog explores how a data-driven approach can optimize scheduling, improve patient flow, and create a more balanced workload for clinicians. Pitfalls […]
Mission in Motion: A Conversation with LeanTaaS’ CTO Tim Vasil
At LeanTaaS, our mission to transform healthcare operations is driven by the talented people behind the technology. Mission in Motion is a new blog series that introduces the team members whose expertise, creativity, and personal journeys inspire the work we do every day. Through their stories, we’ll explore what motivates them to tackle some of […]
Breaking Barriers in Healthcare Operations with AI
In the ever-evolving landscape of healthcare, operational efficiency has become critical to delivering high-quality care while navigating labor shortages, increasing patient acuity and volumes, and tight margins. Last December, LeanTaaS hosted Transform Hospital Operations Virtual Summit, featuring 18 health systems that shared actionable insights and inspiring success stories leading the charge in AI transformation. The […]
Optimizing the OR ecosystem: a holistic and AI-powered approach to perioperative transformation
Operating room (OR) efficiency is a key driver of both clinical and financial performance in healthcare, with ORs generating up to 70% of hospital revenue and up to 40% of expenses. The opportunity is clear, but past attempts to enhance OR efficiency often focused on isolated problems within the perioperative system—like early block release and […]
Life at LeanTaaS: Spotlight on our Summer 2024 Interns
LeanTaaS proudly celebrates the achievements of our 2024 summer interns! This year, our Data Analyst interns were immersed in hands-on projects that not only honed their data analytics skills but also provided real-world impact within the healthcare industry. As the summer ended and they returned to school to continue their studies, we caught up with […]
Optimize patient access and nurse productivity: AI-powered scheduling with a twist of port draw fast track
Texas Oncology-Round Rock Infusion Center in Austin, Texas, is one of those places that never seems to slow down. It’s a high-volume hub where mornings are crammed with activity, but the afternoons are typically quiet. This imbalance in patient flow caused a significant problem: infusion chairs were running out at peak times, resulting in long […]
2024 National Nurses Week: Four LeanTaaS RNs share their stories
National Nurses Week is May 6-12, 2024, celebrating the invaluable contributions of nurses. At LeanTaaS, we celebrate and appreciate all the nurses in our lives — our colleagues and leaders, those who’ve made a difference to us and our loved ones personally, as well as the customers we partner with to support their high-quality caregiving […]
Optimizing surgical robots to drive efficiency and ROI in the OR
For more than a decade, robot-assisted surgery has been a consistent trend in hospitals and health systems across the country. This shows no signs of slowing down. The benefits of leveraging robots – wisely, cost-effectively, and for the surgical procedures that truly need them — can be many and far-reaching. Average ROI looks like a […]
The “one-stop-shop” for customer security: Introducing LeanTaaS’ new ‘Trust Center’
At LeanTaaS, we’re committed to trust and transparency in everything we do – especially in our offerings to customers. To continue providing customers and prospects alike with all the information they need to make informed decisions, we just unveiled our new Trust Center. This comprehensive resource is a single destination for iQueue customers and prospects […]
Improve infusion scheduling compliance one patient at a time: a guide to productive appointment scheduling conversations
Infusion appointment scheduling is a complicated exercise. Labs, provider schedules, chair availability, and pharmacy capacity are only some of the many factors infusion center schedulers must consider when determining when to schedule a patient. Many centers try to prioritize patient preference, in the hope of providing a positive experience. This touch-and-go, part-science, part-art exercise can […]