iQueue for Operating Rooms: Turn Available OR Time Into Completed Cases

Connect the surgical journey with insight-driven workflows perioperative teams can execute, every day. Anticipate capacity risks, surface readiness and staffing gaps, and coordinate action across access, preparation, execution, and performance.

550+

 

Hospitals 

100+

 

Health Systems

5.7k+

 

ORs

5-7x

 

Return on Investment

Optimize OR capacity

Perioperative teams have more operational information than ever. The challenge is turning that information into consistent action across the surgical journey.

iQueue for Operating Rooms brings predictive, real-time operational intelligence and workflow assistants into the systems teams already use to manage surgeon access, case readiness, staffing, surgical execution, and performance, helping them use existing capacity more effectively.

A blue and white badge labeled "AKLAS Research Customer Rated Performance Insights Data" is spotlighted against a blue background, highlighting achievements powered by solutions like iqueue for operating rooms.

Orchestrate the surgical journey end-to-end

Turn available OR time into greater surgeon access:

Predict which block time is likely to go unused, release it earlier, and match available time with surgeons looking to schedule cases. Streamline block release and request workflows so teams can fill more open time and increase case volume with existing resources.

product or illustration1 min    

Automate routine patient outreach, bring health information together for review, and identify clinical or documentation needs earlier. Help pre-op teams focus their attention on the patients who require follow-up while reducing repetitive administrative work.

Flowchart showing tasks and messages entering iQueue software, which organizes items with status icons; completed and flagged items are sent to user profiles on the right.    

Give perioperative teams real-time visibility into room progress, schedule changes, staffing coverage, and emerging delays. Align nurse and anesthesia assignments with the surgical schedule, anticipate coverage gaps, and help teams adjust as needs change throughout the day.

Digital dashboard and mobile screen showing operating room schedules, status bars, user icons, and alert symbols for scheduling conflicts or warnings.    

Give perioperative leaders a shared view of block utilization, case volume, and access across facilities. Support more informed block allocation and reallocation decisions, strengthen accountability with surgeons and service lines, and apply consistent performance practices across the system.

Dashboard showing user profiles, progress bars, a pie chart, a bar graph, and five icons representing different user types connected to the dashboard on the left.    

product or illustration1 min

Measurable results

5%

 

Increase in case volume

40%

 

Reduction in cancellations

25%

 

Increase in staffed-room utilization

5-7x

 

Return on investment

It’s hard to argue with hard ROI and that’s what we got with LeanTaaS. The CFO asks you why you didn’t do it sooner.

Aaron Miri
MBA, FCHIME, FHIMSS, CHCIO, Senior Vice President and Chief Digital and Information Officer, Baptist Health

iQueue is a far more scientific way of managing OR capacity and creating access to OR time, accountability for block time, and transparency into operating metrics. OHSU deployed iQueue for Operating Rooms in October 2018. From start to finish, the process took less than eight weeks. On day one of the go-live, there were more than 100 transactions to request and release OR block time. In fact, we have unlocked more OR time within the first week of using iQueue than we had in an entire year.

Dio Sumagaysay
Vice President of Perioperative & Multi-Specialty Procedural Services, OHSU

Within one year of implementing iQueue, we were able to increase overall block utilization by 20% and prime time utilization by 4.8% and that’s with the 7% reduction in available rooms ... that indicates that we’re using our space a lot more efficiently.

Megan Eubanks
Senior Director of Business Operations of Perioperative and Procedural Services, The University of Kansas Health System

The tools streamlined surgeons’ and their offices’ abilities to find open time and how open time was advertised, and made it very easy for surgeons to proactively release any block time that might not be needed far enough in advance to where it can be efficiently filled by another surgeon. This has not only helped our existing surgeons eliminate their case backlogs, but also has provided ease of access to open time for surgeons who were looking to bring new or more cases to MultiCare.

Michael Myer
MD, MBA, Cardiothoracic Surgeon and Physician Executive, MultiCare

We’ve increased our volume, we’ve increased our prime time utilization, we’ve increased our staffed room, we’ve increased our block utilization and we’ve generated +$40M in the first 18 months of [using] the tool.

Brian Dawson
MSN, RN, CNOR, CSSM, System VP of Perioperative Services, CommonSpirit Health

We’ve seen great success using the iQueue product to enable our operations and process improvement teams to drive visibility and action across the health system.

Amy Cate Huveldt
Vice President of Performance Excellence, Baptist Health

iQueue for Operating Rooms FAQs

What is operating room optimization software, and how is surgical orchestration different from traditional OR scheduling software?

Operating room optimization software helps perioperative teams use surgical capacity more effectively.

 

iQueue for Operating Rooms goes beyond traditional scheduling by coordinating the workflows that determine whether available OR time becomes a completed case. It brings predictive intelligence, workflow assistants, automation, and operational data together across Surgeon Access, Case Planning, Surgical Execution, and Operational Intelligence.

EHRs are essential systems of record, but perioperative teams also need tools that turn operational data into coordinated action. iQueue extends the EHR with purpose-built workflows that help teams identify unused capacity, coordinate patient readiness, align staffing to demand, and respond as schedules change. It works alongside existing systems as an optimization and orchestration layer rather than replacing the EHR.

Reducing preventable cancellations starts with identifying readiness gaps before surgery day. iQueue coordinates case status, patient information, clinical and procedure risk, preparation pathways, documentation, and patient outreach so teams can identify what needs attention and act earlier. LeanTaaS has validated outcomes showing a greater than 50% reduction in cancellations.

iQueue uses predictive intelligence to identify capacity while teams still have time to act. It predicts block-release opportunities, surfaces surgical demand, and intelligently matches available OR time with surgeons who are more likely to use it. This helps health systems turn otherwise unused capacity into scheduled cases.

iQueue connects with existing EHR environments through lightweight data feeds rather than requiring a rip-and-replace. It supports Epic, Cerner, and other major EHR systems, using operational data to power workflows across the surgical journey. Most workflows are read-only, while Daily Roster includes a Push to Epic capability for sending staff assignments to Epic Snapboard.

iQueue provides real-time visibility and coordinated workflows that help keep rooms, staffing, and schedules aligned as conditions change. Capabilities such as Real-Time View and Daily Roster help teams track case progress, coordinate staff assignments, and respond to schedule changes without relying on disconnected systems and manual updates.

Key OR metrics include first-case on-time starts, prime-time utilization, staffed-room utilization, block utilization, case volume, turnover time, and case-length accuracy. iQueue brings these measures into operational analytics and reporting, with benchmarking that helps leaders identify opportunities and make more proactive decisions across perioperative operations.

Ready to get started?

Take the first step towards unlocking capacity, generating ROI, and increasing patient access.

Click to access the login or register cheese