LeanTaaS Blog
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Triage OR Capacity Amid COVID-19: Lessons From the Field
This article originally by Jo Quetsch, MA, RN on OR Manager. As COVID-19 cases escalate nationwide, health systems across the country are determining policies and procedures related to their resources,…
Strategies for Oncology Centers During COVID-19 Outbreak
This article originally appeared in Oncology Practice Management by Jamie Bachman, Executive Director for Oncology Services, UCHealth, and Brian Shields, Manager of Performance Improvement, Oncology Service Line, UCHealth. COVID-19 is…
How to Minimize Overbooking at Infusion Centers – Establish a Pathway
Infusion scheduling has always been a hard problem to crack. With operational constraints, varying nurse schedules, and very sick patients it is hard to construct a flawless schedule that fits…
A look at operational and clinical applications of AI in healthcare
These days, artificial intelligence is everywhere. It has become such a part of everyday life that it is easy to lose sight of how AI and machine learning can assist…
Solving Nurse Allocation Issues: How AI Effectively Prepares Infusion Centers
Louis Pasteur famously said, “Chance favors the prepared mind.” In highly specialized environments such as infusion centers, which are unpredictable by nature, it often seems impossible to adequately prepare. Scheduling…
Health systems need to move beyond resource-based scheduling
Watching the tennis matches at Wimbledon over the last couple of weeks has inspired me to try and play a bit more often in order to improve my erratic, “weekend-warrior”…
LeanTaaS Welcomes Katherine Halverson-Carpenter
LeanTaaS welcomes Katherine Halverson-Carpenter to the team as Vice President, Clinical Operations. Katherine brings more than two decades of experience managing perioperative services at leading healthcare organizations across the nation…
CHIME Survey Reveals CIO Perspective on the Optimal Path to Improved Operations and Increased Revenue
A recent survey of CHIME CIOs reveals a continued disconnect between the availability of EHR data and its ability to influence both revenue and operating margins in hospitals. The survey,…
The Data Proves It: First Case Starts And Turnover Time Are Not Your Best Metrics
As a perioperative business manager for almost a decade, I’ve seen dozens of operating room efficiency improvement projects and benchmarks that focus heavily on first case delays and turnover…
Shaping the demand curve to improve asset utilization is a bit like playing Tetris
In a previous article, I talked about how higher “velocity” contributes to greater efficiencies in a healthcare operations setting. The key to increasing velocity is to focus on minimizing the…
Improving Operational Efficiency in Healthcare
The notion of improving operational efficiency is conspicuously absent from the healthcare debate — neither Obamacare nor the newly proposed GOP plan discusses the impact that a step-function improvement in…
Moving Beyond Dashboards for Healthcare IT
I think we can safely add “travel agent” to the list of anachronisms that have gradually receded from our collective consciousness. Along with pay phones, and at some point in…
