Health systems need to move beyond resource-based scheduling

Infusion Scheduling • machine learning • OR block scheduling • predictions • Predictive Analytics

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” level of play. The challenge is in reserving a tennis court at a convenient time — early mornings or evenings during the weekend when it… Read More

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 to her role at LeanTaaS. Most recently, she was the Executive Director of Perioperative Services at UCHealth, University of Colorado Hospital. Prior to that, she… Read More

CHIME Survey Reveals CIO Perspective on the Optimal Path to Improved Operations and Increased Revenue

Big Data • Block Utilization • budget • CIO • EHR • operating room • revenue • utilization

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, conducted by CHIME and LeanTaaS, asked hospital CIOs five questions about their perceptions with regard to EHR data and attempts to increase both operating margins… Read More

The Data Proves It: First Case Starts And Turnover Time Are Not Your Best Metrics

Block allocations • block time • Block Utilization • hospital operations • mobile • Operating Rooms • Operational Excellence • perioperative

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 times. On the surface, that makes sense; if the first case doesn’t start on time, it has a snowball effect on the rest of the… Read More

Improving Operational Efficiency in Healthcare

Big Data • hospital operations • infusion • Infusion Centers • Infusion Scheduling • innovation • labs • Operating Rooms • optimization • OR block scheduling • Predictive Analytics

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 efficiency could have on access to healthcare (through more capacity), quality of healthcare services (through reduced wait times for patients) or cost (through better utilization… Read More

Moving Beyond Dashboards for Healthcare IT

Healthcare IT • hospital operations • machine learning • Operating Rooms • Operational Excellence • Predictive Analytics

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 the future, brick-and-mortar retail stores. One needn’t look far to see the humble travel agent’s replacement: hundreds of websites and mobile applications from which one… Read More

3 Simple Ways to Improve Operating Room Utilization

Healthcare • Healthcare IT • Operating Rooms • OR block scheduling

As a perioperative business manager for over a decade, I’ve seen dozens of approaches and projects to improve operating room efficiency. No matter how you calculate your operating room utilization, if it’s less than 80% there’s room for improvement. Even if you’re happy with your utilization as a metric, you know you have several problems:… Read More

Improving Nurse Satisfaction Requires Root Cause Solutions

EHR • hospital operations • machine learning • Nursing • Operating Rooms • OR block scheduling • Predictive Analytics • wait times

A recent RNnetwork survey found half of the nurses they surveyed (49.8 percent) have contemplated switching professions, with 27 percent citing overwork as the reason. In his analysis of this data (as reported by Kelly Gooch on Becker’s Hospital Review), RNnetwork President Eric Darienzo offered six ways healthcare organizations can create a nurse-friendly culture including… Read More

Doing the math to reduce wasted time for healthcare delivery

data science • Healthcare • healthcare technology • Infusion Scheduling • optimization • OR block scheduling • Predictive Analytics

Excellent service processes are fast processes — this is the universal truth of service operations. Just as the water level in the bay hides the rocks from visibility, high levels of inventory mask underlying problems in manufacturing or logistics. Extending the analogy to service, long process times mask all kinds of service inefficiencies, such as… Read More

EHRs: What’s Next — An OR Manager’s Perspective

EHR • Healthcare IT • healthcare technology • machine learning • mobile • Operating Rooms • OR block scheduling • Predictive Analytics

Among today’s biggest trends are EHRs and business intelligence. We’re investing millions of dollars creating “data engines” that track patients throughout the continuum of care. In many ways it’s similar to the internet in its infancy — we’re building a foundational layer that will transform how we deliver care and, over the next decade, care… Read More

LeanTaaS Insights

Data-driven insights for Healthcare Leaders

Health systems need to move beyond resource-based scheduling

LeanTaaS Welcomes Katherine Halverson-Carpenter

CHIME Survey Reveals CIO Perspective on the Optimal Path to Improved Operations and Increased Revenue

The Data Proves It: First Case Starts And Turnover Time Are Not Your Best Metrics

Improving Operational Efficiency in Healthcare

Moving Beyond Dashboards for Healthcare IT

3 Simple Ways to Improve Operating Room Utilization

Improving Nurse Satisfaction Requires Root Cause Solutions

Doing the math to reduce wasted time for healthcare delivery

EHRs: What’s Next — An OR Manager’s Perspective

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