Leveraging AI to optimize staffing and navigate operational shockwaves in infusion centers
For all infusion leaders, and nursing and schedule leaders — optimizing infusion capacity will be a key topic at LeanTaaS’s Transform Hospital Operations Virtual Summit taking place next week. Through impact story sessions, workshops, and fireside chats, leaders can learn how AI is transforming infusion center workflows. The third LeanTaaS Transform event in partnership with Becker’s Healthcare […]
10 ways to strengthen hospital length of stay management: reduce inpatient census, improve patient experience
Hospital length of stay (LOS) management has become a major priority for healthcare leaders. While reimbursement requirements are a major driver of this focus, reducing length of stay can also decrease hospital-acquired conditions (HACs), which are subject to payment reductions of their own. Efforts to reduce LOS have led to a flurry of research into […]
UCHealth’s new success in directing patient flow, part 2: on the move – knowing when to transfer patients
The first part of this series, which discussed hospitals’ underlying challenges in bed management and directing patient flow, and how UCHealth equipped staff to solve delayed inpatient admissions, is available here. As concluded in the previous post, directing patient flow throughout the hospital in a timely manner is a complex process. Ensuring the right beds are available for […]
Webinar Writeup: How UCSF leveraged supply and demand considerations to reduce infusion patient wait times
Recently, Aubrey Wong, Administrative Director of the University of California, San Francisco, and the Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, joined LeanTaaS Founder and CEO Mohan Giridharadas to share how the Center piloted iQueue for Infusion Centers and started to reduce infusion patient wait times and increase volumes. Missed the event? We’ve got the details […]
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 […]
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 […]
Optimizing speciality clinics in a telemedicine world
Patients resign themselves to this simple fact every time they have an appointment with a specialist: nearly half of the total time that they spend in the clinic will be spent waiting alone. This clinic “alone time” begins in the waiting room, both before and after check-in. Then there is the time spent perched on the […]
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 […]