Open your chairs and reduce your wait times: our virtual conference for infusion leaders
Every infusion center leader wants to increase access, decrease patient wait time, and lower healthcare delivery costs. Given operational constraints, varying nurse schedules, and critical patients, it’s difficult to build a flawless schedule that fits the needs of everyone involved. LeanTaaS & Becker’s Healthcare have developed a schedule of infusion center focused sessions during our […]
Infusion scheduling: winning the game of Tetris
Operational leaders in oncology know exactly how difficult it is to balance the multiple tradeoffs needed to create infusion center scheduling templates. Patients want a consistent appointment for each week of their 8-week infusion regimen; nurses want a predictable time to eat lunch and end their shift each day; the clinical staff want the flexibility […]
Digital innovation transforms Novant Health
Not every healthcare system has a “Chief Transformation Officer.” It’s a title more likely to be found at CVS, Conagra, Viacom or CBS. But healthcare is an industry under transformation. The way healthcare providers get paid for their products and services is continuing to evolve. That’s why leading health system Novant Health tapped Angela Yochem as their […]
Increasing infusion center resource utilization: a strategic approach to scheduling
This article originally appeared in Oncology Practice Management. We often compare scheduling infusion appointments to playing a game of Tetris, as most of the effort is focused on fitting patients with appointments of varying lengths into all available resources in the center. Once every resource is scheduled into and there are no more gaps on any […]
UCHealth improved admission/discharge predictions, increased agility, and reduced daily chaos with advanced analytics
iQueue for Inpatient Beds is a cloud-based solution that drives daily inpatient capacity management decisions at all levels from a single operations-focused source of truth, including discharge and admissions predictions for each unit by time of day. iQueue for Inpatient Beds was developed to combat the key patient flow issues hospitals are facing, including poor […]
Maximizing infusion center efficiency by leveraging chair utilization data
Every day, an infusion center juggles its scarce resources, namely its infusion chairs, nurses and other staff, and it’s pharmacy resources. When managers and schedulers get it right, the day flows relatively smoothly and patient care is maximized. However, when unexpected variances occur in cycle time – the time patients are seated in infusion chairs […]
Guidelines for infusion centers to avoid clogged schedules
Every infusion center faces the operational challenge of maximizing its most scarce resources – infusion chairs, as well as nursing and pharmacy resources. At the heart of utilization is time, and while timing issues arise during the course of a treatment day – for example, a patient’s allergic reaction to a drug extending an appointment […]
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 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 day. […]
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 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 of scarce, expensive assets). The opportunity […]