Webinar Writeup: How Texas Oncology leveraged machine learning to unlock and increase infusion volume
Recently Tammy Sayers, Chief of Operations at Texas Oncology, explained how applying iQueue for Infusion Centers helped increase infusion volume, including daily patient intake by 20%. Missed this webinar live? View the entire recording here, or read a transcript here. With constant pressure to do more with less, and large time and cost barriers to growing physical […]
Learn more about improving infusion capacity at LeanTaaS’ Transform Virtual Summit
Improving infusion capacity will be a key topic at the upcoming Transform Hospital Operations Virtual Summit on Dec. 7-8, 2021. Infusion center leaders, nurse managers, and schedulers can learn from the experiences of other healthcare professionals whose organizations utilize artificial intelligence and predictive analytics. Through targeted workshops and sessions, infusion center management can hear more […]
Improving surgical scheduling through the use of AI and predictive analytics
OR leaders take note — improving surgical scheduling and surgical block time utilization has become easier to achieve with the use of predictive analytics and artificial intelligence. Now, you can catch up further on the latest advances in this transformative technology, when you are part of the Transform Hospital Operations Virtual Summit, Dec. 7-8, 2021. Presented […]
Three keys to optimizing inpatient bed staffing
For healthcare leaders and providers, efficiently managing misaligned inpatient admissions, discharges, and transfers has always been a challenge. During the initial onset of COVID-19, hospitals were struggling to ensure they had enough bed capacity for patients to be admitted and treated safely. The struggle to manage inpatient beds is now further complicated by a shortage […]
Learn how to optimize hospital operational performance using AI and Analytics at LeanTaaS’ Transform Virtual Summit
Are you a healthcare leader looking to optimize capacity in your OR, inpatient beds, or infusion center? Block your schedule for December 7-8, 2021, and get ready to transform your hospital operational performance at the second LeanTaaS Transform Hospital Operations Virtual Summit. This free online event will feature a keynote from healthcare expert Dr. Scott […]
Is healthcare different from other asset-heavy industries? Managing capacity for hospital operations improvement
To fulfill the potential of hospital operations improvement and optimize our capacity, we need look no further than the asset-heavy, data-driven industries that have unlocked theirs. Every day, UPS has to predict where millions of packages are going to originate on future days and where they are going to go. Many of these will be overnight […]
Webinar Writeup: How Novant Health opened a large infusion center with a small waiting room
Recently Novant Health’s nurse managers Lisa Rioux, RN, BSN, OCN, CRNI and Susan Perrella, RN came together to discuss addressing the operational bottlenecks at their system’s Presbyterian Medical Center in Charlotte, NC. iQueue for Infusion Centers, which uses machine learning and predictive analytics to solve the math underlying optimal appointment scheduling, improved schedules and resources so […]
Addressing staff shortage in infusion centers: how AI can help
Louis Pasteur said, “Chance favors the prepared mind.” In highly specialized and unpredictable environments like infusion centers, which often struggle to retain nurses and staff for the long term, it often seems impossible to adequately prepare. Scheduling in infusion settings is highly complex, wait times are long, and nurses are usually rushed. Clinician burnout and […]
7 ways to reduce Length of Stay (LOS) in hospitals
Originally published in Becker’s Hospital Review, September 2021. To reduce hospital length of stay (LOS) became a critical priority during COVID-19, and continues to be one as surges continue. Even in “peacetime”, however, capitated reimbursement levels and the need to decrease hospital-acquired conditions made LOS reduction key for health systems. While efforts to reduce hospital length […]
Why your EHR is just not enough
The original version article was published on Physician’s Practice. Health system and hospital leaders are increasingly looking to deploy sophisticated techniques to improve operational efficiency and mine the enormous amount of clinical, operational, and financial data that already exists within their electronic health records (EHR). This begs the natural question—if the data mostly exists in the […]